The day we unloaded it from our horse trailer was the day I knew I loved it. It was a deep brown with many scratches and nicks; you could tell it had been well-loved.
Archives for January 2012
Election-Year Paralysis Cripples American Legislative Process
Martha Sherwood provides some insight into current American election practices and how they impede effective legislative function by occupying our legislators’ time and forcing them to take short-term, popular stances contrary to the long-term public good. Could less frequent elections be a possible solution?
For the Dogs: New Year, New Challenges
For his first column of 2012, Eric Brad challenges his readers to challenge what they think they know about dogs. As the Greek philosopher Aristotle once said, “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people believe.” Our best source of information about dogs is the dogs themselves! Perhaps it’s time to ask them and see what they say.
On Growing Up
When do you stop being an adult and start being a grown up? Guest Author Cheryl DeWolfe gives us a hint: it has nothing to do with age.
How Do I Love Thee?
True love is neither a fairy tale romance nor a block buster chick flick. Moira Gardener reflects on what happens when prince charming dismounts his steed and shares with us everything she has learned about love.
Where is the Love?
Love. Many of us love to be in love, and yet how often do we actually love each other well? What’s interesting to me is how humans struggle to exude love on the macro-level – loving all of creation as a manifestation of the divine – and also struggle to be accurate with our labeling […]
Dr. Eli Franklin Burton And The Electron Microscope
In 1938, Canadian Physicist, Dr. Eli Franklin Burton made a big discovery when he really only wanted to look at something tiny.
The Danger Facing Modern Physics
Guest Author Bennett Coles takes a close look at Stephen Hawkin’s recent book and argues that science is becoming narrow minded and that some of our great thinkers could be missing the big picture
“This Language-Soaked Life” Part Two
The Language-Soaked Life Part One. At 19 he spent six months in Malaysia, where he lived for a time in an Iban longhouse in Borneo, sleeping under a basket of human skulls; spent a weekend at the mountaintop palace of the Sultan of Kedah; endured buffalo leeches crawling up his legs in a rice paddy […]
Tussocky: Not A Town In Italy
Birder and writer Nathan Hentze takes us through the tundra where he discovers that flat places are more often than not, anything but flat!