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COLUMN: Pandemic’s potential for permanent effects

The pandemic has wrought such havoc on society that it’s hardly unreasonable to wonder whether life will ever…

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COLUMN: Marking half a century of continuous breathing

I have been breathing, more or less constantly, for almost exactly half a century now, but respiratory prowess…

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COLUMN: Waking up to a world transformed by fire

I’ve written dozens of stories over the years about wildfires but until one moment, just before dawn on…

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COLUMN: Another election season of exaggerations

Presidential candidates always exaggerate the importance of the coming election. They do this in part because they’re arrogant,…

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COLUMN: Following in the boots of a legendary hiker

I probably wouldn’t have detoured from the trail except that my son, Max, insisted. I’m glad his power…

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COLUMN: COVID-19 is scary, but are we too fearful?

Coronavirus is a frightening disease. Viruses often are. They’re so tiny, not even alive in the normal sense…

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COLUMN: Mint on the wind a bracing bit of normalcy

The wind turned up brisk out of the northwest the other evening, bringing to my nostrils the fresh…

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COLUMN: Real heat prompts a search for cool relief

I spent a goodly portion of my lunch hour the other day searching in vain for a sheet…

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COLUMN: Facebook, for all its faults, can enrich lives

Facebook has much to answer for in making it simple to sow the rhetorical poison that has made…

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COLUMN: A grisly reading tour of our national parks

There are quite a few ways to get yourself killed in a national park. More ways than I…

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