Free Parking
Give them bread and circuses, the peasants will never revolt. – Juvenal 1st Century Roman Poet
Our history is presented to us every day in...
Free Parking
What a week. Putin threatened the entire world with nuclear strikes and it barely caused a murmur on the news.
Trump declared a trade war...
The Nature of Eureka
The Nature of Learning
One of the great things I love about nature is the people you meet along the journey. Master Naturalists and others...
Dropping a Line
Got into a school of schoolies and got our winter meat taking a couple friends out this week. These Strikers are what we call...
The Dirt on Nicky
Hallelujah, it’s purslane time!
In June, purslane sprouts appear in the garden like magic. I’ve never planted them, but I’ve never had a summer without...
The Dirt on Nicky
My courgette is bigger than yours
Kevin Fortey is a project manager in Cwmbran, Wales. He recalled how his father Mike helped spawn the British...
ISawArkansas
It’s sometimes hard to figure out the difference between what is believed and what is believable. It’s common to believe what we saw, then...
The Coffee Table
The Illusory Light in the Window
A few months into my job at an Eastern Navajo Agency boarding school in New Mexico, my closest co-worker,...
Exploring the Fine Art of Romance
During a girls’ night out the subject of self-pleasuring came up. I’m uncomfortable with the topic and I’ve never done it so I just...
The Coffee Table
Glimpsing Disability — Part I
While (unadvisedly) playing racquetball for the first time in twenty years, I sprained an ankle. I didn’t actually know I was...