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Oh, how I love to explore abandoned places. Nothing quite satisfies my curiosity like finding an old homestead in the middle of a forest....

St. Francis of Assisi (Patron Saint of animals and the environment) My late father once had a statue of St. Francis of Assisi in his...

Aspiration painting by Robert Arthur Wilson What do conservation, history, and photography have in common with one another? When one...

It has been about two months since I suffered a traumatic brain injury from a freak automobile accident. In the days immediately...

Who is responsible for most of your local history? In my example, let's search through all of the events that I typically write about...

Every noun holds a potential avenue for investigation with each noun connecting to other nouns in a web or a word cloud. Reconstructing...

Nothing escapes gravity forever. Not even death. Gravity, Shiva of the Cosmos, is the Destroyer of Worlds. Stars and planets, flora and...

Sometimes, okay a lot of the time, I second guess myself. I'm not going to delve into the reasons for that, but just understand it to be...

I find it difficult to stay in the moment. I do not mean this in some general sense, but in a literal and specific sense of the...

Screwing over those you protect, by protecting the people that screw you over. This lesson gets played out time and time again in...

Somewhere between reality and fantasy lies the hard truth about feudal vassalage. Contingency should have no place among the vicissitudes...

I miss my father terribly. Dear Dad, It’s been less than a year since you’ve left us. Almost a year, and it still feels like yesterday....

Sometimes we meet people that understand a great deal about the world. Their experiences, education and strength of memory give them an...

I’ve been living in Louisiana for over three years now. There are two seasons here, hot and hotter. There is water here; brackish,...

2020 has been a year unlike any I can recall and thank goodness for that. If I go through the rest of my life not experiencing a year...