One year ago at this time I walked into my office here at 409 River St. after spending some time with Aimee’s family for the holidays. I was greeted by a wall high pile of boxes holding all of my books that I had moved up a week earlier from old office at the church [...]

Matthew Miller turned me on to Kiva. It is a mirco-loan network. He will be talking to all of us about it @ Terra soon. It is an amazing idea to bring together need and resource on a person-to-person level. It is the power of influence. It is the opportunity to share the burden of [...]

My basement sucks. It floods regularly even when it’s not raining. I have uninvited plant life growing in the french drains. And it smells. I have attempted to control these issues with two highly overworked sump pumps but sometimes even that doesn’t work. This past weekend, when one sump first clogged (2 hours to fix) [...]

There is so much good music out there right now. If you are writing out your Christmas list for your mother to give to Santa the next time she sees him at the mall, here are some to put on the list: “The Crane Wife” The Decemberists Amazing music and lyrics from a quirky, ex-bookstore [...]