My most pertinent personal experience with corporate greed and arrogance came to pass compliments of Wells Fargo. Mind you, I never even negotiated my 30 year fixed rate mortgage with Wells Fargo in the first place. Rather, it was sold to them without my knowledge, or consent. When I lost my professional income within the […]
Milt and I made a commitment: we’d brave the crowds at First Friday, Las Vegas (around 10,000 people expected) to support the fundraising effort of Occupy Las Vegas, rather than participate in their march on the Strip. Serious introverts, we much prefer to stay at home, quietly watching the news of it on T.V. In […]
Sitting together on the shoreline of Hilton Head Island, Milt asks my granddaughter Alex, “Should we dig to China?” The seven year old shoots him a look before answering, ”We can’t dig to China! There’s a molten core down there!” The aeronautical/astronautical engineer is taken aback. Being a child is complicated in this century. There’s […]
We two like to think of July 20 as the one truly global holiday. When man set foot on the moon 42 years ago today, human consciousness shifted. Humans looked back at Home. That Milt played a part in making that happen still amazes me. So I propose we set this day aside to do […]
If I’ve become a Westerner, it’s because of the Light. The clarity that comes with dry air enlivens my body, mind, and spirit. Yet this summer solstice finds us driving East, into the increasing haze of humidity co-created by the thickening vegetations and stands of trees. By the time we hike half a mile along […]
It was supposed to be a celebration: the Colorado Environmental Coalition’s Rebel With a Cause Award being presented to Bill McGibben. On a cold rainy evening in downtown Denver, the weather itself was a fitting testimony to what he’s been writing and speaking about climate change. “This is unusual weather for Denver,” my partner assured […]
“When the river is ice, ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life.” William Stafford There was no ice on the Virgin River when we hiked the Zion National Park trail on that March Sunday. But Stafford’s words always haunt me whenever I am near a […]
Abraham Lincoln was born on Charles Darwin’s birthday; Charles Darwin was born on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday: both came into the world on February 12, 1809. Two infants destined for infamy: I picture Lincoln focused backwards in time, called to clean up the mess left by our Founding Fathers over the issue of slavery; […]
As February unfolds, its first day brings sub zero weather: minus seventeen degrees comes as a shock after the previous week’s sixty degrees-plus. Comments abound on the Internet mocking ‘global warming’ even as the coldest winter in U.S. history enfolds the eastern two-thirds of the continent. In Denver we’re on the backside of […]