Prairie Uprising Essays

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

On a Tour of Chadron, Nebraska

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  On a Tour of Chadron, Nebraska With my wife and a traveling companion, I was on a bus-tour of the garden spots in the Nebraska panhandle. ...
Friday, May 23, 2025

On a New Kind of Anxiety

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 On a New Kind of Anxiety As technology advances, new forms of anxiety haunt my dreams.  For the first half of my life, I lived quite succes...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Henry Miller and Hieronymus Bosch (with an excursus on Donald Trump's second administration)

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  Henry Miller published Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch in 1957.  The book is unclassifiable, a collection of sketches about li...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Road Trip: at Flagstaff -- Wupatki and Sunset Crater

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 Road Trip: Flagstaff  - Wupatki and Sunset Crater 1. Here is a paradox: the older you get, the more rest you need.  But, the older you are,...

Road Trip -- Flagstaff to Scottsdale

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 Road Trip - Flagstaff to Scottsdale 1. A little after eight in the morning on a bright day, I leave the Americana Motorlodge in Flagstaff, ...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Road Trip 5 -- in Phoenix

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  Road Trip 5 – in Phoenix 1. Julie asks me to buy her an Indian pot.   According to a Phoenix life-style weekly, “the best place in the val...
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