End Of Ordinary

  When our family pulled away from processed food, it was a slow venture.  A few foods here, a few there.  A lower grocery...

 "What is a coalition?"  The Barracuda asked earlier this year to another passenger in our carpooling cargo van as it traveled to ...

The doors have been opened to flush out the heat of an oppressive afternoon, and it is definitely time to wind down.  It is time for some te...

The morning schoolwork is done, and the evening work has yet to begin.  Tonight there will be novels to read and study guides to fill out, a...

There are little, flour footprints all over the floor even though I have swept three times today.  There's flour on the countertops in b...

 About 60 miles north of the Mexican border a man approached me carrying an assault rifle across his chest and a Glock in his thigh holst...

They are laughing on the porch again.  The creative writing lessons Jules has begun to give a couple times a week are over for the evening. ...

The usage of trains to cart strip mined coal from Montana and Wyoming is looking less and less likely in Washington State.  The projects ...

Right now is a rather giant time of transition for our family.  Jules is finishing out his school year, looking back at what worked and wh...

The emotional difficulties which arose from our hike weren't anything I could have foreseen.  Moreover, the reactions of both the trail...

Somewhere around 1800 miles into the PCT, The Barracuda decided that he wanted to triathlon.  Well, okay... He did 20 mile days on h...

Governor Kitzhaber of Oregon has to make a decision about the Morrow Pacific Coal Terminal on April 1st.  It decides whether coal can be loa...

In the last two months, we've visited our state capitol and will soon visit others to rally on their front steps. The Barracuda and I...

  We have always been a politically active family.  The Barracuda's first camping trip was an old growth logging protest along the ...

Today is my exercise deadline.  Do you all do those too?  A moment in time where the exercise must begin.  No more procrastinating.  No...