A Soul Filling Weekend

| April 26, 2011

My birthday fell on this past Saturday and, as is traditional, Mrs. LFM and I went hiking. This year’s stomping grounds was Kejimkujik National Park, an incredible expanse of lakes, rivers, and forests that is of special significance to Mrs. LFM and me, and was the place in which the ceremonies spoken of in my […]

Observations and Commentary on the New Reality

| April 25, 2011

If you missed my earlier articles inspired by the radioactive bag of shit we’re all holding courtesy of the nuclear power industry in general and Japan in particular, check out Mental Fallout From a Nuclear Clusterfuck, Bullshit Alert – Since 11 March 2011, If You’ve Ever Even Heard of Japan, You’ve Been Exposed, Radiation – […]

To Be Or Not To Be

A Guest Post By Eric E. Noeldechen

| April 17, 2011

Editor’s Note: Not unlike my own self, my esteemed friend Eric Noeldechen takes an old school approach to the basics of life. At the end of the day, while new tools may come along, the basics never change, which is why they are called “basics”. Eric is a husband, father, Scout Leader, craftsman of fine […]

Of Apples and Oranges

| April 13, 2011

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.” ~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 2.2 “Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.” ~ Francis Claud Cockburn Yesterday, the clusterfuck at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor site was […]

Radiation – Let’s Get It Straight

| March 20, 2011

Yesterday’s article, Bullshit Alert – Since 11 March 2011, If You’ve Ever Even Heard of Japan, You’ve Been Exposed, introduced this and the article that follows, and explained my motivation for writing both. If you haven’t yet read my intro, please go and do so now before coming back here and moving forward. Media coverage […]

Reality Check

| March 17, 2011

While representing a bottomless pit of unreality, the internet can still be relied on as a source of Reality and Truth for those prepared to unflinchingly see Nature as She is, and not filtered through rose coloured glasses. The only way the lion will ever lay down with the lamb is so it can be […]

Mental Fallout From a Nuclear Clusterfuck

| March 13, 2011

The damage control dweebs who frame the wordage spoken by media talking heads have been outdoing themselves with the  bag of shit the recent earthquake in Japan has handed to the nuclear power plant industry. A couple days ago I heard a reporter explaining that to cool an overheating reactor core, officials at one plant […]

One Man’s Fish Is Another Man’s Poisson

| March 9, 2011

Every day a new “study”. Yesterday I read a blog article celebrating the health benefits of coffee consumption. I don’t drink anywhere near as much coffee as I used to, but that came about by a process of evolution rather than conscious thought about what caffeine might or might not do to me.I particularly enjoyed […]

Spring

| March 6, 2011

Oddly enough, this poem was born from an intention to write something with a pretty beginning that set the reader up for a funny punch line involving the way Spring unveils just how much frozen dog shit has been slumbering under the snow and ice in our yard, and that blessed day when Nature does […]

Bush Skills Don’t Come Easy

| February 25, 2011

Growing up with a burning interest in living safely and well outside of the comforting arms of “civilization”, I spent a lot of time learning and mastering my skills one at time so I knew they wouldn’t fail me when I needed them to live. More than half a century worth of winters down the […]