Jim Helfers Principles/Navigations

Thoughts and notes on bikes, books, places, academics, media and philosophy generally.

Monday, January 1, 2024

The Letters of C.S. Lewis

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 On December 27th, I finally finished the third volume of The Letters of C.S. Lewis (Walter Hooper, ed.). I bought the Kindle versions in J...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Grandpa Does the Arizona Trail: Passage 34

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  On September 21st and 22nd, 2023, Chris and I completed about 12 miles of Passage 34, hiking ten and a half miles from south of Schultz Ta...
Monday, October 9, 2023

Grandpa Does the Arizona Trail: Passage 35

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Cedar Ranch Trailhead Marker On September 20, Chris and I left our Grand Canyon National Park campsite, travelling to Flagstaff. On the way ...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

Grandpa Does the Arizona Trail: Passage 36

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The rim of the Painted Desert As of October 4, 2023, the passage has not been fully hiked or biked. In September 2023, parts of this passage...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Grandpa Does the Arizona Trail: Passage 37

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  South Kaibab starting point We began at the South Kaibab Trailhead, SOBO on September 17, 2023. Within the National Park, the AZT is not c...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The Maricopa Trail--Granite Reef Dam to Usery Mountain

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 At long last comes an attempt to finish off one leg of the Maricopa Trail, this time from Granite Reef Dam to Usery Mountain Park. I had he...
Friday, December 30, 2022

The Fibonacci Moons Project

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  This project was conceived just after I had finished the "Month of Moons" project, about the time I was teaching HUM 201HN, a Gr...
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Emeritus Professor of English, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Grand Canyon University; Associate, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Arizona State University (1990-2020); Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Married to Christine; 2 Children
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