Restoring Mayberry

My friends' homestead in the Welsh mountains.  I traveled through the UK a few weeks ago visiting friends, all of whom were livi...

This is a bit delayed -- I've been travelling to Wales and London, and will write more about that shortly  Kaller: I’ve been to a lo...

Kaller: Would you say that Greens everywhere are in favour of a more localized economy? Gilman: I don’t know about that. I would...

In a nursing home in St. Paul, Minnesota last year, a 91-year-old Quaker named Rhoda Gilman died, and her death was barely noted -- which ...

If you ever wanted to see what the world might look like after the Tribulation, you could do worse than visit the Burren land on the Atla...

Some time ago I was able to sit down with a gentleman named Jack who lives near me, and he let me record him and publish the conversation,...

Originally appeared in the KIldare Nationalist newspaper. Photo courtesy of Mark at Permaculture.com.au.  A while back I wrote about...

All futuristic fiction is really about the present; during the technological boom years of the early 20 th century, writers extrapolate...

Bluebells on the forest floor in County Clare.  I've been blogging only very occasionally for the last few months, as I've been ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about black-and-white movies like  Stagecoach , and how they often dealt with our modern, 21st-century problems...