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Dave Wilton

20 Jun 2025 • 3 min read
Photo of a lavatory / watercloset

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Photo of two mostly black, winged insects with orange thoraxes joined at the ends of their abdomens

love bug

Back when I used to live in Texas, each spring I would be subjected to two assaults. The first was by allergies, which I’d experienced before when living in more temperate climes, but which are especially bad in the Texas spring when everything is in bloom. The other was
09 Jul 2025 4 min read
Photo of a small dog (a Shih-Tzu) sitting on an examination table in a veterinarian’s office
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vet / veterinarian / veteran (paid)

09 Jul 2025 3 min read
Collection of sketches of late 19th-century Black workers harvesting and processing pine-tree sap into turpentine

tarheel / rosin heel

Tarheel is a nickname for a native of North Carolina. The term is preceded by the older rosin heel. Originally an epithet, its early history is mixed up in the racist attitudes of the antebellum South. But tarheel has been ameliorated and is now used proudly by residents of that
07 Jul 2025 7 min read
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