A lot of goofy and bizarre New Age behavior takes place here on Maui. We have everything from fake Rastafarianism and aroma therapy to sensory-deprivation…
Posts published in January 2004
Every winter, when the season comes to do maintenance on the tractors, it is merely my sheer laziness that causes me to meditate on the…
I was born in Germany in 1945 just at the end of the Second World War, the eldest of seven children. We grew up on…
The fierce cougar attack last week in the afternoon on one of the two women biking together at a Southern California Wilderness Park only half…
Forever, people in power have been afraid of fiction. Wild imaginings threaten to undermine the view of the world as unchangeable, the easy idea that…
American leaders don’t easily learn lessons from the past. Before choosing war in Iraq, the Bush leadership might profitably have consulted former Secretary of Defense…
Lately I've received several end-of-the-year form letters wherein the sender(s) painstakingly detail their lives over the past year. It's the kind of missive only mothers…
The early afternoon summer sun reflected off the lake onto my ceiling and danced on my desk. The front door to my little bachelor cottage…