I did a post a couple of weeks ago called “…down by the river“. It was about living out of a van….YouTube video of a guy who was down on his luck and living out of his van…pontificating about all … Continue reading
Category Archives: survival
first girl I loved The Internet is beautiful. The Internet is terrifying. I had this song on an old cassette that I bought used that I’ve since packed away somewhere. It’s Jackson Browne’s version of an old Incredible String Band … Continue reading
“Beautiful enough to cause the Angels to stop in mid-flight.” That’s a quote from this film about homesteading. These are my people. This is where my family came from. It’s funny to listen to this…all the cadences of the voices…the … Continue reading
Something free sounds pretty good to an 18-year-old manboy. The summer before my senior year of high school, I went up to Minnesota with a buddy to work for a high-voltage electrical contractor. The contractor was building power line towers … Continue reading
This is a video about a guy named Heimo Korth who lives a backwoods life up in Alaska. I’d read a book about him a while back called “The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Artic … Continue reading
I have a friend who is a songwriter who has absolutely zero internet presence. I’m not saying that he doesn’t have presence…he has more presence than most people I know. He’s a very charismatic guy. It’s just that he hasn’t … Continue reading
A buddy of mine quoted a movie called Serenity the other day. I’d involved myself in a Facebook conversation that I had no business being in…something about class warfare and the lack of ethics that having money encourages…and it had … Continue reading
After my father passed away a couple of years ago, we were looking through some of the old photo albums my sister had found. One of the albums was a bunch of snapshots that he’d collected from when he was … Continue reading
I worked at a radio station for a while right before Jenny and I were married. We had a phrase for what happened when we weren’t paying attention ( or we ran out of song when we put “Low Spark … Continue reading
I bought a load of logs the other day. Jenny said that when they delivered it in the tandem dump truck that the ground shook when the driver dropped the load. It is a big load o’ logs. Not only … Continue reading