HeyJaredMichael Dobie
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- Sep 27, 2026
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This place pulls and pushes like the tide (opens the original)
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It's the beaches, so many beaches and so close, with their soft sand and ocean breezes and seafood shacks, and all the water all around us for swimming and sailing and fishing and kayaking and just quietly contemplating the wonder of it all. It's dangerous drivers who speed and weave and tailgate, the general disrespect for the rules of the road such that stop signs and red lights and lane markings are merely suggestions to be disregarded when inconvenient, and the guy who cuts you off and force
My fig tree came back, just like we all can (opens the original)
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The fig tree was dead. That much was certain. It had eight or nine branches forking out from the main stem and every one of them was gray and dry. In other words, dead. We first noticed it in March, but kept hoping for some kind of miracle as the calendar turned to April. Still, no sign of life. We have a soaker hose that runs among the blueberries, blackberries and fig tree, and we left it where it was and kept it going on its four-times-a-week schedule. By the time May rolled around, we resign
Remembering September 11 while not being consumed (opens the original)
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When the planes hit, I was in Chicago on assignment for Newsday. I watched the towers crumble on a hotel television. The ensuing hours and days passed by in a ghastly haze. After making sure everyone at home was OK, I finished up my work as best I could. Then, with the nation's airspace shut down, I drove my rental car across the Midwest, joined by thousands of others driving rental cars back to their homes. My only company was the car radio with its angst-ridden soundtrack of fear, confusion an
Nature offers many lessons, some hard to accept (opens the original)
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The drama unfolded suddenly as I was standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes. It was early morning a few days ago and one of the neighborhood cats was in the backyard, seeming to be on stealth patrol. I was familiar with the cat with its black and white markings, having chased it out of the yard many times as it prepared to go after the birds at our two feeders. Before I could move, another familiar cat, this one jet black, came into view from the right and I watched the pair close in on a l
An Amazonian race that's bugging scientists (opens the original)
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As an antidote to the daily soul-sucking stream of news about political infighting, actual warmongering, natural and manmade calamities, and all manner of heartbreaking individual tragedies, allow me to present: Yes, bugs. More specifically, a new and exciting effort by hundreds of scientists in Brazil to count every species of insect in a small area of the Amazon rainforest. That made me smile, at least at first. Data collected in the early stages of this project and reported this past week in
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