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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on December 02, 2012. The second day of December brings a foggy morning to the North Country. Out my back window only the black silhouettes of a few winter-bare trees and the nearest houses are visible. The rest Read more
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It is estimated that John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) sold over 70 million books in his lifetime. He is best known, of course, for his Travis McGee Series. (I have read them all). Any legitimate list of the Best Crime/Suspense writers of the 20th Century would have to include MacDonald in the Top 5. Here are some quotes Read more
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Cal Raleigh finished the season with 60 Home Runs. He managed to do this while he caught the third most innings of any catcher in the Major Leagues in 2025. In spite of all of that, the AL MVP award this year went to Yankees’ oaf, Aaron Judge. Modern baseball metrics are powerful tools, but they are not neutral. Read more
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Each year that goes by I appreciate Lynard Skynard more and more. In fact, recently someone at work asked me the standard Boomer question: “Beatles or Stones?” My answer: Lynard Skynard, of course! Here is the perfect song for a Monday. Enjoy! Read more
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After the Big Salary Dump of 2025, the Minnesota Twins finally started running. The team might have been decimated and terrible, but they finally became fun to watch. I went to StatHead.com to find out where 2025 ranked in comparison to the other teams in the 125-year history of the Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins franchise. Even though the Twins hardly even Read more
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“The Red-Headed League” was the second Sherlock Holmes short story that John Watson shared with the world (the first was “A Scandal in Bohemia”). It is the story of Jabez Wilson, who comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Wilson tells them that some weeks before, his young assistant, Vincent Spaulding, had urged him to respond to a newspaper advertisement by Read more
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If I were to paint the short days of winter, I should represent two towering icebergs, approaching each other like promontories, for morning and evening, with cavernous recesses, and a solitary traveller, wrapping his cloak about him and bent forward against a driving storm, just entering the narrow pass. I would paint the light of Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on December 11, 2011. Winter has come to the North Country. Last year by this time we were already buried under snow and had much more still to come. This year there has been just two dustings, Read more
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I have said it before here at ClimbingSky: I love a good Police Procedural. The book I am reviewing here today, Mist-Walker by Barbara Fradkin, fits the bill well. Mist-Walker does a wonderful job of blending the tension of a Police Procedural with the eerie pull of Psychological Suspense. Set in a rugged, fog-shrouded landscape, the novel follows Inspector Michael Green as he’s drawn Read more
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