Green living is becoming more essential and more widespread, according to an article I came across recently. I was pleased to see that it’s appealing to all segments of society, no matter what politics...

It’s finally here, the 2012 winter solstice. The frost on our east window etched this pattern in front of the snowy Sangre de Cristo Mountains. We and our animals are having a quiet day. Now that the...

Here are the top five articles on this website in 2012. The second one sure surprised me. (I find this out from the statistics that the webhosting company has available. They don’t have personal data,...

How dependent we all are on fossil fuel. It's easy not to think about that much in daily life at home, but we recently took a road trip to visit family and old friends. Aside from our visits with them, we...

Of course I know that conspiracies exist. I remember noticing that in seventh grade when a group of cute girls began systematically ostracizing some of us brainy types. And even a cursory glance at human...

The summer that I was 20, Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his “I Have a Dream” speech in my hometown of Washington, D.C. The day of the speech, I was flying back home from Africa, from Sierra Leone...