The Way an Oak Tree Changes What I Know

One hundred hours of labor can change you. I found the one hundred hours of work rewarding. I made some mistakes, gouged some of the edwood with the orbital sander, and was unable to repair some of the damaged wood prior to staining. But, we have to ask questions when doing this kind of […]

Removing Change

Finishing Bankrupt Heart meant I could focus on finishing the refinishing of the exterior of our redwood home. The east side of the building hasn’t been touched since it was first stained in 1974. Orbital sander in hand and with about 40 hours of spare time and just like that the side of the house […]

Change Crashes into the Denial Puppet

There are no easy answers, but there are text book responses to some of our current problems. Climate change denial spews from the mouths of many a politician receiving funding from various Big Oil and Gas corporations. Curious how these brilliant minds seem to see something that an entire globe of scientists do not see. […]

Least Change on a Wing Called Tern

Come this way, down thispath, through the dune grass, to the edge of the shore, where we can bare our souls to the wind, the waves, the sun. And then from the edge of this island, where sand meet the breakers, we sit and we wonder, without book, without care, no bugs to bug, no […]

Change Changed Newport

Busking was salvaged from the dictionary some years back and put to work again as a term describing street performing. I visited Newport, Rhode Island and while strolling the waterfront walked past this joint. Not that busking would go down very well in Newport. I make it my business to know about where buskers play […]

Changing Ground Rules for Teens

It is hard to read the paper and have the headlines not change your mind. What the heck is going on? All I want to do is a show now and again, get a book published, and enjoy the good things life has to offer. I think Syria is easier to understand than a credit […]

The Double Back Twisting Alfa Romeo Boattailed Kiss of Change

The blast in Oslo this morning, the Greek debt problem, the Washington DC partisan knife fight, the heat dome over the top of the USA. If there is one thing I know today and know as a certainty, the boattail Alfa Romeo was not a change I could believe in. Life is indeed a wave, […]

Places Change Could Not Change

Working in Monterey County two weeks ago I spent my off hours walking the streets of Pacific Grove. The housing stock was built back at the turn of the last century and into the decades that followed. The fog shrouded Monterey pennisula continues to draw people where imagination is ignited by the communities many charms. […]

Circus as Change

Especially interesting speculation with regard to whether the newfangled cirque is a durable long lasting incarnation. And it comes while finding by accident this other iteration of circus, something that seems to have survived against all odds. Time will tell. Fortune telling is not my specialty. It seems the era when Jack Benny, Bob Hope, […]

Changing Fears

Subliminal acts are regular feature length phenomenon of our minds incessant working. We are often unaware that our minds have hijacked our thinking and that in fact what we are doing is fearing something, worrying about something, planning something, solving something all the while we are doing an altogether different task with our mind. We […]