• Much Ado About The Wrong Thing–Dead Wolves and a Dead Horse

    Oftentimes I begin essays with quotes from Thoreau.  All to often he is a voice of reason and insight.  Before beginning this, I gazed out the window mentally sifting through the pages of Walden, and I actually flipped through a few chapters hoping a line would pop out at me.  I’d like to quote Thoreau …

  • Building A Wind Turbine–a photo essay.

                                                          I built this in my kitchen. I’m not an engineer or anything like that. We can solve energy problems–if we try.  

  • Choices

    1000 final exams to read by a deadline that will come too soon or enjoy the first snowfall?

  • Writing on an Empty Well

    “Where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.” –Hemingway from The Green Hills of Africa. The quote from Hemingway gives me an essay worth of thoughts, but I don’t have the desire to write it. In fact, I’m trying not to think about writing. I’ve been …