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Blog postThere are many everyday language tools (metaphors, similes, memes and so on) we take for granted, barely noticing them as we use or hear them. That they scarcely register doesn’t detract from their value, though, as these efficient shortcuts aid understanding, add liveliness to prose, and signal group identity within cliques, cultures and countries. One of the oldest is the humble definition, a simple device used to establish the exact meaning – or meanings – of a given word, allowing the lis
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Blog postPublic land is – or, at least should be – just that: public. But what does that mean? And who should be able to decide how such common ground is used? One person’s wilderness policy may be another’s government overreach.
John McPhee (one of my favorite authors) once wrote a book called The Control of Nature. In this triptych portrayal of human folly, he recounts three attempts to contain overwhelming natural forces, highlighting our hubris in believing we are up to the challenge. One -
Blog postIf you spend any amount of time hiking in the Southwest you will eventually happen upon a scatter of lovely, multicolored stone flakes lying in the sand. In some areas, black obsidian predominates, and in others yellow and red jasper. But most often you’ll find a beautiful mix of jasper, chalcedony, quartzite, and petrified wood spanning all of the colors of the rainbow and most of the delicate shades in between. What you have found is the remains of ancient tool manufacture.
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Blog postCheatgrass is an innocuous-looking plant you’ll encounter everywhere in the Great Basin. At higher elevations, it’s a wispy, occasional presence filling in the spaces between patches of sagebrush. But in the wide valleys between the mountains it reigns supreme, rolling out golden meadows that stretch as far as the eye can see.
Yesterday, I drove the hundred eighteen miles from Battle Mountain south to Austin, Nevada. Why? Because Austin (elevation 6,575, population 192) boasts its sel -
Blog postAugust 25, 2005 – One of the great appeals to me of the Southwest is the ability to notice and appreciate each individual element of the natural surroundings as I encounter it. Water and nutrients are scarce, so plants keep their distance; some even exude poisons from their roots to prevent competitors from establishing themselves nearby. And without a thick covering of vegetation, rocks, crevices, and other features of the terrain command attention as well.
In such a landscape, indiv -
Blog postHad I the power to snap my fingers and transport myself to a favorite place at will, I’m not able to think of a destination more desirable than almost any isolated place in the Southwest at sunset.
Each night of this trip I’ve picked up a book as twilight began to gather after a day of hiking, thinking I’d relax and read for an hour. And each time, within a few minutes I’ve invariably set the book aside, and simply watched and listened as the colors of the setting sun took control of -
Blog postIf you want to really get away, you should consider Nevada. Esmeralda County’s one thousand, three hundred forty-four inhabitants, for example, had two million, two hundred eighty-four thousand acres all to themselves in 1996. Today, fewer than eight hundred of those isolated citizens remain. Nye County is ten times larger – half the size of the entire state of Maine – and boasts about eight thousand citizens outside Pahrump, it’s only real city. The true total is more ambiguous, as Nye Count
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Blog postThose of you who have read the complete Frank Adversego canon may recall that in The Lafayette Campaign our hero came close to attending the Burning Man Festival. The following describes my own near miss in 2005.
If you consult an on-line map of Nevada, you’ll see that its upper left quarter is bounded on the south by Interstate 80 and on the east by Route 140. And inside that box, nothing, unless you keep zooming in. Eventually, you’ll find just a few more roads. If you were to turn -
Blog postYes, it has been a long time. And no, sadly, I haven’t made any real progress on The Argosy Adventure since posting the last chapters of the first draft here on May 31. In the interim, I’ve been holed up on an island off the coast of Maine, building a boat, rowing and sailing among the islands of Penobscot Bay, taking many hikes in the woods, and letting the draft lie fallow while I took a break. Hopefully, I’ll get back to it soon. In the meantime, I decided to return to a project I set asid
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Blog postThe first assertion of liberty in the U.S. Declaration of Independence reads as follows:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Is there any American that would stand up and say – no – that’s wrong? It’s impossible to imagine.
And yet…
And yet, there are those that would bar persons of color f
Books By Andrew Updegrove
The Turing Test: a Tale of Artificial Intelligence and Malevolence (Frank Adversego Thrillers Book 4)
Jul 12, 2017
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The Blockchain Revolution: a Tale of Insanity and Anarchy (Frank Adversego Thrillers Book 5)
Feb 21, 2019
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