minding your own business

Man and Mind I tend to listen to my inner voice and believe every single word. I trust that voice. It’s my voice. I know that it is just a shameless mind speaking to me. Minds have no pride, they’ll say anything, and never stop talking to you even when they have nothing new to […]

Patagonia Whisperer

I traveled down to Tucson. Stopped in Quartzite slept in the back of the Volvo. Renting a room from midnight to early morning isn’t any fun. Sleeping in the back of a station wagon suits me fine. As success and money have found their way into my life so has travel by air, hotels and […]

April 3rd, ’18

Patagonia, Arizona don’t need no stinkin’ wall

Time is Slow-Eternity is Long

Five hundred miles later I arrived in Ajo, Arizona pitching my tent first- answering questions later. My RV pull-through host didn’t disappoint packing a small sidearm while collecting my site use fee. “You’ll want to pack the tent and be out of here by 8.” His tone of voice allowed me to crawl […]

He is our Shame, Our Agony

To the Barricades Pulling out of the Paris Agreement pisses me off. I’m furious with the titans of industry extorting our representatives into taking this outrageous action. We are the rogue nation with a blighted unhealable soul. Any semblance of our being that shining beacon on a hill just got tossed into the dustbin […]

Paid Well Enough to Not See it Coming…

For 25 years, I have written about the social and natural evolution of Napa, a diverse county that includes rare and valuable biological “hotspots” and 140,000 people, most of whom are associated with what’s now referred to as the wine “industry.” During that time, I have learned something about developers. Foremost is the fact that […]

Finding Patagonia’s Better Nature

By all accounts what work a hearty new arrival might find Patagonia is less than none.

Fairer Trade… Looks Like This

Where the Ploys Are… “Income distribution characteristics” is a term to describe how a free trade agreement alters how and where money flows in an economy. It may be true that a new trade deal increases the total amount of money being exchanged between two trade partners, but it may also be true that more […]

The Lunch Bucket Card Carrying Men in My Family

Where the people live… in reality… they don’t live in trade deals

Pass the Beer Nuts… Or How I Learned to Love the End

The Mayan People as Example Our globalized interconnected world was sold as a cure all for every kind of inefficiency of free enterprise. Free markets were going to spread democracy to every corner of the earth. Something went wrong. I know it, you know it; we all know that something is wrong. We are simply […]