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Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Press Conference; The Terror Bird # 17

When Special Investigator Clayton Yonder (a.k.a. my boyfriend) came out on the podium of the Gossamer Gardens ballroom to speak ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Press Conference. Opening Statements #16

Soon after the DNA lab results on the feather came back to the Avian Slaughter Task Force, Special Investigator Clayton ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie … in Love and War # 15

If you give it a moment’s thought, you might agree that love and war are not mutually exclusive. Consider, for ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS : Archie and the Hybrid Executioner #14

Okay. So, as things stood in my living room on that Saturday morning, our bellies were full of bagels, but ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie, and Vlad the Impaler #13

There is something comfortably anti-climactic about sitting down with fellow-investigators after a wildly energetic period of evidence collection. When, with ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Avian Slaughter Task Force #12

After I arrived home – accompanied by Archie and our new friend Daffney, the normal-sized and weirdly adorable chickadee – ..


Tilting at Windmills : Archie and the Chickadee with Backward Knees #11

Clayton Yonder – my boyfriend, my hero, and potentially the protector of all imperiled wildlife – did not call me ..


Tilting at Windmills : Archie: Housekeeping

There is an aspect of crisis management that is less dramatic than the urgency of dismantling an actual threat. It’s ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Sketch Pad

After Special Investigator Clayton Yonder of the United States Parks Service Avian Slaughter Task Force – my boyfriend – told ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and Something in the Nature of a Powwow

After Clayton Yonder arrived at my house, I brought him into the living room to introduce him to our avian ..


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