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Yes, that is coffee and wine together. And a candle.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is my world this week, as I wrap up a tardy issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies<\/a> \u2014 <\/em>as soon as a certain person OK’s my copyediting job on her article and I can send it to the layout editor with the rest. Articles in this issue come from Russia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic,((Are we supposed to say “Czechia” now?))Britain, and the United States.<\/p>\n

Then will come layout for the Bulletin for the Study of Religion <\/em><\/a>and, oh yes, another Pomegranate <\/em>to get us back on schedule.<\/p>\n

Always at hand (to the left of the wine glass), the <\/a>Chicago Manual of Style. <\/em>Learn it, people\u2014or at least bookmark the important shortcuts<\/a>. (Actually, CMS is for editors; academic writers can get by with A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations\u00a0<\/i><\/a> for considerably less money.)<\/p>\n

On the right, Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson’s edited collection, Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe<\/a><\/em> \u2014 the article that I was editing referenced it quite a bit. And of course a back issue of The Pomegranate <\/em>for those “How did I do X last time?” questions.<\/p>\n

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Male evening grosbeak (Cornell University).<\/p><\/div>\n

But there are advantages to working at home, like being pestered by dogs, particularly Wendy the foster dog, an excitable German wirehaired pointer<\/a>.((She has been living here since March, but now that her owner is out of the hospital and feeling better, he hopes to pick her up next month.))<\/p>\n

She clatters into my study: “Come quick! come quick!” then rushes through the open door onto the veranda.”Look! Birds! Birds! We must act!”<\/p>\n

“No, Wendy,” I say, “those are evening grosbeaks<\/a>. We are not hunting them.”<\/p>\n

“Ha!” she says, and the next morning on dog walk,she dashes into the brush and comes out with a very very dead grosbeak, which she carries proudly into the house.<\/p>\n

Retrieving birds is what she does \u2014 can’t punish her for that! And she knows it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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