gotta get this down

I drive a Honda Civic that gets 30/35 mpg, I usually take the train to work, I ride my bike and walk to destinations when it’s “reasonable to me”, I try not to use very much electricity (and Maria will tell you that I love to get rid of phantom loads), I try to keep […]

A few weeks ago I just had a crazy epiphany. I was sitting in a big open park on the north side of Chicago at a picnic table by myself. I think I was reading The Secret Message of Jesus. There was only one other person at the park; he was also […]

Ben: Ben is about 40 years old and was dressed quite nicely in a clean sweatshirt and jeans. He was insulating his concrete living area under an overpass with some thin translucent plastic. He said he might not be staying there long, but was happy that someone else may reap the benefits of […]

Several months ago I received a quazi-belated birthday/Christmas gift from my friend Dave. It was a book written by Mike Yankoski and titled Under the Overpass. The book was altogether a very good, inspiring, eye-opening, and enteraining read. I read it in maybe two weeks, which for me was quite an outstanding accomplishment.
Mike […]

I love being outside, especially in open fields…and I bet I would thoroughly enjoy being in the magnificent open field shown in my vox header. I’d have to say that the only downside to being in that particular field is seeing the 3,000 ft.-long trench and dirt pile along it’s entire length. […]