My latest essay on John Muir was just published in The Humanist! See what you think. And may all readers […]


My latest essay on John Muir was just published in The Humanist! See what you think. And may all readers […]

I post this “invitation” now and then. I’m not paid for most of my teaching and writing, so I welcome […]

My friend Jim Gronvold has published a string or strand or stream of books full of something we call “poems,” […]

I’ll post this now and then. I’m not paid for most of my teaching and writing (and just got the […]

Working with non-profits for many years I got used to “professional begging” … asking people to support the good things […]

John Muir sauntered into the wilds of my mind and my life, becoming first a “spiritual […]

These are my photos from A Freethinker’s Gospel After all, Nature is the best “good news,” isn’t it?

As wonderfully diverse as it is, Nature is Nature, wherever we are. the Americas, Africa, Asia, Arctic, Antarctic. . .(and […]

Time to re-set our compass “Something strange is happening.” So says a geophysicist at the University of Leeds in England. […]

Whitman was born 200 years ago this month (May 31, 1819). Today’s column in the Citizen-Times (page one; page two) presented […]

Ten years ago I was stitching together a ragged collection of stories and reflections into a book I called “The […]

“Every one to do his own and her own thinking.” ~Lucretia Mott Revolutionary Women’s Rights crusader, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, said […]