Tag Archives: Teaser Tuesday

Top Ten New-to-Me Authors from 2022

Posted on January 24, 2023 by smellincoffee

This week’s top ten Tuesday is “Favorite new-to-me-authors from 2022”. I encountered a lot of authors, but how many will I revisit? Let’s see… (1) Sean Dietrich. Sean of the South visited my library in December, and I was gifted … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Seeing from outside

Posted on January 17, 2023 by smellincoffee

Science is not just about seeing. Science is about measuring — preferably with something that’s not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain: preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, imagination unchecked by reference to other data, … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday: Pythons and elephants and humans oh my

Posted on January 10, 2023 by smellincoffee

From the very interesting and often amusing Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. When one finally does catch a python, there’s the issue of killing it. “They also have this weird ability to regrow their organs,” Hart explains. You can’t … Continue reading →

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Tuesday tease: habits

Posted on January 3, 2023 by smellincoffee

Plus, Kindle books I forgot I owned. I have struggled with hard habits in my life. I have found these hard habits are only broken by harder habits. Nature abhors a vacuum, meaning I cannot just quit doing something in … Continue reading →

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A Christmas Tease

Posted on December 27, 2022 by smellincoffee

It is Tuesday, isn’t it? Christmas and the holidays have me in a temporal mist. Teasing from Wendell Berry’s The World Ending Fire again, because I haven’t been reading anything else. (Definitely in siesta mode!) As a people, we have … Continue reading →

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Teasin’ with W.B. again

Posted on December 20, 2022 by smellincoffee

The old bucket has hung there through many autumns, and the leaves have fallen around it and some have fallen into it. Rain and snow have fallen into it, and the fallen leaves have held the moisture and so have … Continue reading →

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Teasday Tuesing with W.B.

Posted on December 13, 2022 by smellincoffee

This morning’s tease comes from a Wendell Berry anthology, The World-Ending Fire. The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly – an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is … Continue reading →

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An old man’s Tuesday teases

Posted on December 6, 2022 by smellincoffee

Today’s Teases come from The Old Man’s Boy Grows Older. “You know any more rich people?” “No,” I said. I was beginning to feel depressed. “That’s where you’re dead wrong,” he said quietly. “You know two rich people. You and … Continue reading →

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A trio of Tuesday Teases

Posted on November 29, 2022 by smellincoffee

What do you call a heart that is simultaneously full and breaking? Maybe there’s no word for it, but for some reason, it makes me think of rain falling through sunlight. Upgrade, Blake Crouch “Most people,” [The Old Man] had … Continue reading →

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Tis’ Tuesday, Tis’ Teasing Time

Posted on November 22, 2022 by smellincoffee

“I guess the best way to tell the story of how I glued myself to the wall of my house, of how such a thing could even happen, is to tell it chronologically. Otherwise, I might appear stupid. But if … Continue reading →

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