optis – Blake Elder

Random observations of note, not always about Montpellier, sometimes just in my head. As ...

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Last train home

Saturday, 13 November, Chur to Montpellier It was early afternoon when I got in ...

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November photos

As requested, no time for captions, some previously published, your mileage may vary, void ...

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Arcas Platz

Being Alive — The search which we make for this quality, in our own ...

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Shutter Priority

Titles are hard. Come up with something and in your head it sounds great. ...

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American cv

In spite of all temptations, To belong to other nations, He remains an American ...

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21 septembre

This day, ten years ago. I’m driving around with one the best guys in ...

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Chur Photo Issue

Our writers have been writing, but nothing is fit for publication, right now. So ...

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Wednesday Kaleidoscope

The German for this day is the best: Mittwoch, mid week. That captures it ...

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Midsummer Montage

Technically we’re past midsummers, which was June 24th. It’s been a busy time, with ...

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Time Ain’t On My Side

…and it won’t wait for me. That’s a bit of a mash up: the ...

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May Days

Our first few years in France we were always ambushed by May. For this ...

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The Enormous Network

The Enormous Network and Other Stories They write code and configure computers, design the ...

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Thirteen Discs

Thirteen Discs – a novel Software is like electricity: it powers everything. In 1992 ...

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Dead Dogs

Dead Dogs and Other Stories Working for the town vet, guiding raft trips, and ...

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January Train

2:12 A.M. wake ups are wretched. It’s the same dread feeling as when you’ve ...

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UVm’s ROI

On December 2nd, the University of Vermont announced that it would cut 27 academic ...

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Intense

I was talking to Lukas when I noticed I wasn’t feeling well; we were ...

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Give Me Liberty!

In the original Star Trek series, “This Side of Paradise” (season one, episode twenty-four), ...

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Ten Years After

Make it up as we go along – The Talking Heads August 1st is ...

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Wandern photos

In the mountains around Flims and Laax with Kieran, Mike, and Odin the savage ...

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Job Hunt 2016

I haven’t been a W-2 employee (that is full time, not consultant type) since ...

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Just for fun…

If I could mess with things a bit, here’s what I’d like to see. ...

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Hello I Love You

Why not? Why be dull? It’s only a moment, but sometimes that’s all it ...

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On TV

The death of Leonard Nimoy on February 27 upset my ever changing editorial calendar. The ...

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West Virginia versus Switzerland

For a few summers in high school I worked as a river raft guide ...

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Photo issue: Spring, 2020

Our team of writers, editors, and photographers have been busy coping with this covid-19 ...

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Façon du voir Edward Hopper

Ses meilleurs tableaux avons blancs: la voile blanche d’un sloop gréé de gaffes, l’extérieur ...

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Weg Edward Hopper zu sehen

Seine besten Gemälde haben weiß: das weiße Segel auf einer Gaffelschaluppe, das weiße Äußere ...

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Ways of Seeing Edward Hopper

Ein deustche Version findet man hier. Il y a une version française ici. His ...

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Redemption

The original title of this essay was ‘Niggers fucking bitches in their asses’. More ...

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Letter from Chur 3

The third in an occasional series. *** Mornings when walking to the train station, ...

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At the airport arrival area

We live on a wandering planet. —Saint-Exupéry Feeling sad? Worried about the human race? ...

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Lackeys and Toadies

“An extremely credible source” has called my office and told this writer about @DTrump’s ...

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The Wine Dark Sea

Posted on Dora Katherine Money Elder’s birthday, and as such, the appropriate drink pairing ...

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The Accident

By seven in the morning the raft guides at Wind River Outfitters were busy ...

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Game Show Host

Looked at from a performance standpoint, tanks are cool: big hunks of metal that ...

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France

Maybe Marseille…(working title) The previous working title was Dog Shit Nation, but that might ...

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Chur Photo Issue

Mostly Chur, anyway. ...

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Road Trip 2019

Trains, the metro, and automobile The trip began at the wrong train station. You’d ...

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The BS Moose

In the summer of 1973, I had just finished the fifth grade, we moved ...

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Why Bother?

I had always wanted an adventurous life….It took a long time to realize that ...

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Nooner

His hand pushed the small of her back, bringing her hips, legs, bringing all ...

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Sans frontières

“The more primitive a man is, the better he believes himself to be…Doubt and ...

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Debugger

Dad – below is the article I was telling you about. I submitted it ...

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Letter From Chur 2

The second in an occasional series. Once again written E.B.White style. I knew things were ...

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My Own Private Alexandria

A response to a suggestion. Back then, you might see a young woman reading ...

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A Tale of Two Fingers….and One Tendon

November, 2009 – Belmont, California My Japanese garden machete is from Soko Hardware in ...

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Letter From Chur

The first in an occasional series. The last Saturday in January, mid-morning, I left ...

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The Photo Issue

Pictures from 2017: mostly from our summer trip to southeast Asia, but some are ...

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Radiohead

On Thursday, November 30, American Public Media (APM) emailed all subscribers that today was ...

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The Most Peculiar Interview

Recently I had the oddest experience, although on the surface of it you wouldn’t ...

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Uber versus tuk-tuk

Prologue: Dawn in Montpellier It was dark when we left our apartment at five ...

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How to live…

Montpellier, France – June, 2017 To my daughter, la plus merveilleuse, whose age is no ...

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Moments in France

Another collection of jottings, cut scenes found on the editing room floor, reminders written ...

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April was not the cruelest month

We were due. I had not been back since 2014. Catherine and Annie had ...

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