Category Archives: Travel (real or imaginary)

So, I’m back.

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Pat Greene

I have been back for a week now. My blood pressure has gone up several points since my return. It is easy to forget the trauma a country may be going through when you’re a tourist. Especially when you’re in … Continue reading →

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Yesterday

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Pat Greene

I spent yesterday on a boat. I saw the frigate birds and Nazca boobies soar and wheel over Kicker Rock, and a blue-footed booby perch precariously on a nest halfway up its nearly sheer cliff-face. I saw the maelstrom churning … Continue reading →

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If it was good enough for Darwin…

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Pat Greene

Notes from San Cristobal, Galapagos: San Cristobal was the first island Darwin landed on in the archipelago. That almost makes up for not being able to see more penguins, since the penguins live on other islands that are at least … Continue reading →

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Wildness.

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Pat Greene

I can go home now. I saw penguins yesterday. Penguins swimming. Penguins waddling. Penguins doing what penguins do, all where penguins normally do things. And geese! and cormorants! and albatrosses! and petrels and terns! Even skuas, those mobsters of the … Continue reading →

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Poem for today while I cruised through the Beagle Channel

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Pat Greene

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white … Continue reading →

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Notes from our foreign correspondent*

Posted on January 13, 2020 by Pat Greene

This year: South America. One advantage that having a scientist spouse who goes to conferences in interesting places is that sometimes I get to tag along, which is why I am on Tierra del Fuego. Ushuaia, the small town I … Continue reading →

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Who I am…

I am a lawyer, former mother of teenagers, and a quixotic seeker after and champion of factual truth.

I make the best damn brownies you have ever had that are not regulated by the federal government.

I love movies, Broadway, and intelligent conversation.

I think in song lyrics and movie and television quotes.

I believe in the use of proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar even in text messages. I am willing to debate the use of the Oxford comma, if you know what the Oxford comma is. It also makes me very happy if people use the subjunctive mood when appropriate.

I have been told I intimidate people. I am really just a fluffy-centered teddy bear. Really.
It's all my fault. No, really. The views expressed in this blog are mine and mine alone and in no way whatsoever represent the views of anyone else, including any past, present, or future employer.
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Words to live by ….

“He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8.

“Pray for the dead, fight like hell for the living.” Mary Harris (“Mother Jones”).

“Don’t boo. Vote.” Barack Obama.

“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” Reinhold Niebuhr.

“No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.” Sir Terry Pratchett.

“Damning facts are still facts.” Steven C. Holtzman.

“If you don’t stick to your values when they’re tested, they’re not values — they’re hobbies.” Jon Stewart.

“Darkness never sustains, even though it sometimes seems it will.” Doctor Who.

“Writing is a form of mischief.” Stephen Sondheim.

“An idea is not responsible for the people who believe it.” Don Marquis.

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” Joseph Campbell.

“Truth is our strongest ally, our biggest weapon, and our best defense.” Me.

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” Stephen Colbert.

“The opposite of war isn’t peace, it’s creation.” Jonathan Larson.

“We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger.
We rise and fall, and light from dying embers
Remembrances that hope and love last longer.
And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love;
Cannot be killed or swept aside.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda.

“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Emma Goldman.

“No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett.

“I believe that the God who made (among other things) light, and space, and number, and time, and the spiral curve of Fibonacci numbers, must be acknowledged to understand more than I do about why there’s pain in the world.” Teresa Neilsen Hayden.

“No, it’s not fair. You’re in the wrong universe for fair.” John Scalzi.

“Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, ‘Liberal,’ as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.” Lawrence O’Donnell

“So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.” Molly Ivins.
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