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Astrology 10/25/18
ARIES
March 21-April 19: In her poem “Shedding Skin,” Harryette Mullen compares her own transformation to the action a snake periodically carries out to renew...
Hemp and the woolly mammoth’s hair piece
It’s no secret that hemp is one of the most misunderstood plants in history. For centuries, it has been used by all kinds of people for all kinds of things — clothing to car construction, bioplastics to building supplies, food to fuel...
Only for love
Dear Dan: I'm a 28-year-old queer woman. It’s been a while since I’ve been in a relationship, as it was impossible for me to...
Direct messages
Dead Dan: My husband recently passed away. He was a wonderful person and we had twelve great 12 together. He was also very, very...
Astrology: 9/14/17
ARIES
March 21-April 19: Two animals are pictured prominently on Australia’s coat of arms: the kangaroo and the large flightless bird known as the emu....
ICUMI (In case you missed it)
Teenage boys show respect to lost, jabbering man on stage
When a senile man appeared on stage of the Boy Scouts of America 2017 National...
Astrology 5/19/22
ARIES
March 21-April 19: In defining the essential elements at play in a typical Aries person’s agenda, I’m not inclined to invoke the words “sometimes”...
Astrology 12.24.20
ARIESMarch 21-April 19: Your capacity for pioneering feats and impressive accomplishments will be at a peak in 2021. So you could become the best...
Bluff calls
Dear Dan: I’m a heterosexual cis woman in a monogamous marriage. My husband and I have always struggled to connect sexually, mostly because he...
Astrology 4/18/19
ARIES
March 21-April 19:French writer Simone de Beauvoir sent a letter to her lover, Aries author Nelson Algren. She wrote, “I like so much the...
Astrology 12/8/16
ARIES
March 21-April 19: “I frequently tramped 8 or 10 miles through the deepest snow,” wrote naturalist Henry David Thoreau in Walden, “to keep an...
New Horizons at Pluto
In the 1960s, the Apollo missions to the moon inspired a generation of scientists and engineers to pursue careers in space exploration. On the heels of those successes, the Voyager missions to the outer solar system inspired my generation. I vividly remember the ...