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Doug Harrington (1 October 1966 - 14 November 2006) watches his old man demonstrate his new, spiffy, lightning-fast Pentium computer in D...

Dr. Mary Spanner (not her real name) is in New South Wales, Australia. Kevin McLaughlin is in Dublin, Ireland. I am in Boulder Creek, Califo...

Oolie and part of his posse, 2003. The Black Freighter left port three years ago today. Both Mrs. Fort and I are ailurophiles, and we make n...

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The forced-air furnace doesn't work without electricity, so Ft. Harrington's only heat for the past four days was from the wood-burn...

Kelsey and Jax this evening. Note the shaved places on Kelsey's forelegs: they were for intravenous ports' insertion during his tim...

I had a hard week at work last week. It was nothing particularly epochal or even unusual -- just a confluence of typical trials, round budg...

Doug Harrington (1 October, 1966 - 14 November, 2006) stalking crayfish at his great-aunts' house in Upstate New York, summer, 1975. Tha...

412 years ago, my 10th-great grandfather, John Harrington, included the following in a report to his godmother the Queen on his recent deplo...

Day 35 of 35: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones stayed in the room next to ours the night before our departure. ...

Day 34 of 35: Monday, September 6, 2010 Our last full day in Ireland this time was a very rainy one, spiked by the obligation to return our ...

Day 33 of 35: Sunday, September 5, 2010 Drifting in the rain on Carlingford Lough. Postponed to last by circumstance, we finally drove up fr...

Day 32 of 35: Saturday, September 4, 2010 Moving day. Sighing day. Heading out the door, September 4th. We left the Bothy today, headed bac...

Day 31 of 35: Friday, September 3, 2010 Hornbeam hallway in the Cloisters, Millennium Gardens, Birr Castle Demesne Our last full day in the ...