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Swimming through the muck

There is nothing quite like making your way, with snorkel and mask, through a narrow channel of silt and muck, and finding your way after fifteen minutes of terror, into a lovely and deep gem of a pond. Exactly how this relates to work, I am not sure, but the tiny curious fish, the large wary trout, the rare snapping (?) turtle, and even the simple act of surmounting a deep-rooted fear, make lake snorkeling an experience not to be missed.

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Read my shirt

NEW! Pochi Dog tshirts and gift items.

yok sh' mosh t-shirts - Have fun with these phonetic Polish/Slovak language T-shirts! (Jak s'e mas' means "how are you?" in Carpathian Mountain dialect Slovak. It is pronounced "Yok sh' mosh")

vee gates t-shirts - New! Get a phonetic German language T-shirt.

(Email Mary for more information on customizing one of these shirts or creating one of your own.)

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Slovak heritage (determining grandpa's origins)

Photo of my grandparents' wedding, January 22, 1911, Wilkes-barre, PA

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what I'm reading

Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality, by Brad Warner

what I've read

Schoolgirls, by Peggy Orenstein

You're an Animal, Viskovitz!, by Alessandro Boffa

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser

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WWII letters

The Letters Home site: A collection of letters written in 1943-45 by my father. He served on the USS Paul G. Baker, a WWII destroyer-escort.

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