NOTES: Small Towns
We are losing our small towns, the same way we are losing family farms, topsoil, and a feeling for what Christopher Alexander calls "human scale." I had almost forgotten how a small town works, until... More »
We are losing our small towns, the same way we are losing family farms, topsoil, and a feeling for what Christopher Alexander calls "human scale." I had almost forgotten how a small town works, until... More »
Our culture places a premium on "being nice," and this leads to a lot of falsity, fakery and insincerity. How often do I step aside from an honest response in order to be nice? How... More »
I have an addiction, it seems, to self help books. With each new secret, solution, answer, method or system that comes available, I have to read it, or at least have it on my bookshelf... More »
In spite of all the writing I have done, I always feel as though I am still learning to write. Always the blank sheet of paper, like a vast open desert... Always the haunting fear... More »