A new documentary titled Chasing Ice demonstrates—in stunning detail—the terrifying pace at which glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere are retreating. As all of the science piles up against our carbon-based economy, it is unconscionable that people like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and many in Congress continue to deny that climate change is real and human-driven.
Read MoreToday By Your Side – Another Trip Around the Sun
I would do it all over again. All of it. I would move along every pathway I followed – no matter how difficult to end up here in your arms, forever. Happy Anniversary My Love. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul” – [...]
Read MoreWhy Irony Should Be a Required Subject

We couldn’t resist taking a snapshot of the street sign near our bed and breakfast in Sante Fe, NM. There’s no question that the irony of the sign should have occurred to the sign makers, but what’s even more ironic and hilarious is that the referenced intersection bounds one corner of the local Presbyterian church.
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S L O W Food

We went to the Louisville Farmer’s Market and Isabelle Farm in Lafayette over the last two weekends. We’ve thought and talked a lot about keeping our food closer to where we live. It’s kind of like knowing one’s own watershed…
Read MoreThe Haunted Windchimes Inhabit Americana

There are times, late at night, when the burnt sienna pigments cut adrift from old jugs of corn liquor take to the wind. Their warm summons trip the unwary as easily as they ferry the willing. So it was, on such a night, at some abandoned roadhouse, that five sylvan avowed to form a band. [...]
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