When I was a child and living in California, I remember my father having one of these old Renault Daphines. He bought it for 50 dollars and drove it home. It was black and it smelled old when it got … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2012
My wife was looking up videos of Kiko, the new baby giraffe at the Greenville Zoo recently…and off on the sidebar on the Youtube site was a whole bunch of videos about the impending Mayan predicted disaster known as 2012. … Continue reading
One of the best things I think we’ve been able to give our children is the experience of seeing that there’s something else on the other side of the fence. Our road trips, whether across the country…down and back again….or … Continue reading
I heard on the news this morning that IKEA was in trouble for using forced labor (ie East German prisoners) in some of its factories in the 1980’s…presumably to keep prices down. I’m no East German prisoner…but my wife made … Continue reading
When I see my wife sitting at our computer….and then I hear her say, “WHAT’S THIS?!!! WHAT IS THIS?!!!” ….I know something is up. Unless I’ve visited some site featuring illegal, filmed with a webcam in a Chinese or Russian … Continue reading
I’ve been playing guitar almost as long as I have known how to use a fork. You would think that I’d be a lot better guitar player than I am after 37 years…you’d think I’d be a gourmand after 50 … Continue reading
In the 1970’s, there was a slew of books about owner built, funky, human scale houses. Everything was geared to reflect the personality and spirit of the builder…and the builders of these homes were not hobbled by normal constraints like … Continue reading
There is an old story about a fellow who went to a small town with the thought of moving his family there. “What kind of people live around here?” he asked the attendant at the local gas station. “Well,” the … Continue reading
Dolly Freed, future rocket scientist and 17 year old possibility thinker, wrote and published this book about living off the land and living her own way in 1978…so I guess that means that “Dolly Freed” (a pseudonym) was “green” before … Continue reading