What Do I Know?

 I started a long post trying to show that homelessness isn't a local issue.  Well, sure, the impact is local, but the main causes are o...

 Waste in packaging is another thing that has become normalized.  Unless it's egregious, we just wade our way through it, without even t...

Wednesday night my daughter and I went to Bainbridge High School to hear author J.B MacKinnon.  He was interviewed on stage by local Bainbri...

We're on Bainbridge Island visiting with family for Thanksgiving.  I've been walking more than biking just because a) most roads her...

  Like lots of my posts, I have one key points to make, but it seems like I need to give some background to this quote.   Cold Mountain Path...

Let's start off with some good news.  If you're only going to link to one of these articles, I recommend this one.   There are bette...

Aminatta Forna's novel starts with a Wolfer killing the last pair of wolves in Greenhampton, Massachusetts  in 1834.  One of the key cha...

[UPDATE:  Here's a link to a great site about birding and other wildlife in Beijing and beyond:   https://birdingbeijing.com .] When I t...

I'm going to make this as brief as I can and encourage others to find their way to other forums so they can judge for themselves.  April...

 Impact On Kids  There's lots of talk about the debilitating impacts on the mental health and development of kids with schools out of se...

Feeling overwhelmed by Climate Change and other issues.  Learn how the top ways the world can slow down climate change.  Some are surprising...

After dropping the kids off yesterday morning we took BART out to Oakland to visit long time friends.  And they took us to Middle Harbor Sho...

I've been to six of the planned eight OLÉ classes on Pebble Mine. Here's my sense of this mega project to extract copper, gold, moly...

It was in the mid 30s when I went to Pecha Kucha class yesterday, but the streets were good, so I biked.  My presentation was ok, people sai...

My daughter sent me a picture of the Anchorage airport North-South runway that she took as her plane was leaving two weeks ago.  There it is...