We drove in the “Freedom Convoy” today! Seriously, there it was as we were driving here in Western North Carolina. […]


We drove in the “Freedom Convoy” today! Seriously, there it was as we were driving here in Western North Carolina. […]

I’ve just submitted this week’s column. It may seem like a light-weight, yet perhaps heavy enough to consider if a […]

For many years, Samuel Taylor State Park in Marin County, California was a sanctuary for me. Beautiful saunters through fern […]

This weekend’s column isn’t really about my old Pathfinder truck I drove for almost 25 years, but it does spin […]

As a fan of Young Sheldon, the brilliantly precocious little guy with a big brain who grows up to be […]

This coming weekend my “Highland Views” column highlights the fascinating Ise Jingu temple in Japan. Built with wooden dowels instead […]

I’m reading The 1619 Project. I’d heard some of the controversy about the NYT project and saw the authors had […]

This weekend’s column weaves an image from colonial history with an interfaith musical event and an old ferryboat … Look […]

My second book of the year, Highland Views, is now available! This collection of 52 columns (one year’s worth) from […]

From 19 to 90 … Such a good feeling to share some of my most recent books with college students […]

We’re keeping an eye on the pond tadpoles. So far the herons, snapping turtles and raccoons haven’t discovered them.

The second part of my essay on naturalist and freethinker John Burroughs has been published in the Freethought Society newsletter: […]