Entries for category "Live Blue Blog"
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wallacejnichols
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April 26, 2009
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Of the tens of billions of dollars in cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other illegal drugs consumed in America each year, most come from or through Mexico. In their wake, the narco-industry has left a brutal legacy of violence that plays out nightly on our news -- decapitations, executions, assassinations and…
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wallacejnichols
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April 21, 2009
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Here’s your mission should you choose to accept it: hold you breath for a month, eat an entire salad bar, swim a marathon a day for 2 weeks, while figuring out how to get to a place you haven’t been to since you were a baby 30 years ago, without…
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wallacejnichols
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Dec. 26, 2008
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. . . what's your plastic footprint?You know what I mean — the amount of disposable plastic stuff your lifestyle generates over the course of a day, a week, a year.Plastic stuff that you may use for a few seconds or minutes then discard into the bin, sending it off…
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wallacejnichols
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July 11, 2007
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"What's plastic foam, Grandpa?" Some day I'll be an old guy, like my father and his father. And my granddaughters will ask me questions like "what's plastic foam?" and "what's a gas station?" When that happens, I'll tell them a story about Thursday night in Capitola, an idyllic central California…
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wallacejnichols
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April 17, 2007
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Two thoughts and pieces of a poem: April 1992 Journal page I’ve always written about the ocean, the sea, nature, places near the sea as if they were a lover, a person, a dear friend. In this case after nearly drowning in the surf near Cape Hatteras. Neruda personified the…
