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Surgical intervention, though too little, too late.
E. Lily Yu

January 2023

My reading tends to be scattershot: I notice interesting references and footnotes and request the books named from my library, whereupon I discover over…
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December 2022

The single most important book I’ve read this year is Bright Green Lies, by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. I would recommend reading it…
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November 2022

I found a tiny uncapped larva a week after treatment, so the queen is alive (long live the queen). The hive has been leveled, an exercise that required…
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October 2022

Homeward speeding, beauty-laden,    Beelike, to its hive, my soul!
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September 2022

LOOK I'M SORRY HE LIKED PUNS TOO, OKAY?
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I went to Chicago for the World Science Fiction Convention, and I was fortunate to have many quiet conversations with good people there. One in…
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August 2022

I am blessed to have friends willing to house me and my cat for a week. I am very blessed that the contaminated water did not reach my downstairs…
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A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with several graduate students studying with a professor I admire. There was an exchange that remains…
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This past week I taught a short course on reading and enjoying poetry, bookended and interrupted by Ogden Nash. Among other things, it included a…
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July 2022

All fruits in the Vaccinium genus (blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, deerberries) are edible, though not all are delectable. Though they can be…
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