This land had vegetation once.
It’s easy to distinguish between private and federal grazing lands when I’m out west. The federal lands still have healthy amounts of...
Title IX is Not Enough
Consider. Friday night, Fall, Appalachia. An expensive high school stadium is filled with local families and kids watching appallingly...
Depressing Political Post
This is an exciting and historic election year. Over 30 years of neo-liberal economic policies have devastated the lives of millions, and...
"You and the land are one."
I like to withdraw from society by reading a book or simply daydreaming. I spend a lot of time thinking, or reading, complex stories to...
Know Thyself, or Schrodinger's Glass
“Know thyself.” It sounds simple, but really most of us hide ourselves. Sometimes it is worth taking a look in the mirror to take a good...
Love May Conquer
Recently we attended a wedding shower for a newly married couple. What struck me about this was how in love they were, they glowed with...
The Usefulness of Nothing
I was going to write about a connection I made recently. We have the Panama Papers scandal, in which it has been proven that the global...
"Can a semi use a drive-thru window?"
There are those times when a life changing choice is made. Sometimes you are not really aware that you are making the decision, or at...
Growing up
Like so many middle class white men, I went through an Ayn Rand stage during my late teens and early twenties. It was heady stuff. I was...
It's your fault
Many voters, especially those under 30, only get interested in the presidential campaign while neglecting all the other, and in some...
