It just happened without me thinking about it. I traveled 584 million miles and now people are wishing me good cheer and birthday greetings. It all has to do with the SUN. THE SUN WE HARVEST BY IT. THE SUN WE BASK IN IT THE SUN WE WAIT FOR IT THE SUN WE AVOID IT …

THE DAY THAT DECENCY DIED I remember my parents discussing the “concern” at the “handicapped school”. My uncle was a pioneer in child development and he was explaining to the special education teachers that the child in question was fully capable of understanding everything they said and did. This child in question had cerebral palsy …

Materials and Architecture. During Medieval times the woods of Europe were filled with European Oak Trees. The wild forests were expansive and unbeknownst to many people…..they were tended by many people. When an oak reached a certain diameter it would often be “copiced”. This means cutting it off around ten feet above the ground. What …

Week Seven on the Road We blink and we realize that we spend a great deal of time on the road. We survive desert dust storms, we dodge blown out tires on the interstate, we negotiate towing fees when something goes bad. An epic 3,200 mile stretch has found us headed to Scottsdale to the …

I think best when I mow the yard, I mow, therefore, I am. Streaming consciousness while appreciating the whirl of a blade and a combustion engine. (Below, My random thoughts while mowing are they yours too?) I’m Irish and German, my DNA results say the same, I’m Northern European through and through with perhaps a …

I was raised in farming country, I was raised with corn, hogs and soybeans nearly 200 miles in every direction. I have watched the evolution of the Productive American Farmer. My farming friends and I have witnessed the family farm become agribusiness. Once they were broad and diverse operations, some cows, some sheep, some hogs, …

A Mexican or Portuguese cowboy /Paniolo was purported to have brought the guitar to the Sandwich Islands in the early 1800’s. He came to these islands as a hired hand to work the cattle that were being brought on to the islands. The cattle were to feed the growing work force of sugar cane workers …

Our 2020 Expeditionary tour into the wilds of the South West has come to a turning point. The Denver Indian Market was a success and the annual art fest in Tubac, Arizona was epic, both in the festival and the friendships built over the years. Tonight we pack up our tent and caravan like gypsies …

I’ve driven on the state highways through the withering small towns on Kansas and Oklahoma. Small towns of one to six thousand struggle to maintain schools, main streets and basic infrastructure. One town boasts of having a citizen that discovered the Planet Pluto. Those same towns now are losing the last of their children to …