hippies on a houseboat

This was one of those late night discoveries when I couldn’t sleep and turned to PBS in the hopes of finding something interesting to watch that didn’t feel like a total waste of my time. I do waste some time … Continue reading

pre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nDDByubKfE I plod. I don’t think I’m a runner yet. This guy was a runner. I was thinking about being single-minded and how focus and natural ability and mental toughness can lead you to greatness. Then I started thinking about … Continue reading

how far?

I was running this morning and thinking. I can’t disconnect the two activities completely.  If I’m breathing I’m thinking. That doesn’t mean that if I’m running and I’m breathing hard that I’m thinking more than usual. It doesn’t mean that … Continue reading

banging on it all day long

We went up to Asheville last night to pick our daughter up at school. This was the middle of one of her PE classes…something about “rhythmic aerobics”. Kidding…this is the drum circle that goes on in Asheville every Friday night … Continue reading

missing

When someone goes missing in the woods, they send out a search party.  They don’t let another evening pass when they discover that a person isn’t where they need to be. But what if a person’s “never left the building” … Continue reading

Alamar

I watched this the other day  on one of the “weird channels” that we get on Dish Network . We have a really limited channel selection because I found a super cheap package that I think they sometimes offer hoping … Continue reading

my new johnson smith

I used to get this catalog “back in the day” that came from a company called Johnson Smith. It was a company that specialized at the time in the weird and the novel items that were all pretty darn appealing … Continue reading

what did he just say?

I was thinking about words again this morning. Yesterday, I closed my post with the word “immolation”. This morning, I woke up thinking about “emulation”. I also thought about “emollient”. That’s a pretty amazing thing to me….so many different words, … Continue reading

get a job

This kind of stuff used to look appealing. I used to think that communal living would be pretty great.  I was born in 1960…so even if I was just a kid, somehow I identified with all the hippies and that … Continue reading

heimo korth…out there in the wilderness

This is a video about a guy named Heimo Korth who lives a backwoods life up in Alaska. I’d read a book about him a while back called  “The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Artic … Continue reading