We drove through the deserts of western Arizona and eastern California over the weekend on the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway (Hwy 10). In Quartsite, Arizona, we met a man who had served in the Army and had been dispatched to … Continue reading →
I interviewed Sean Daly at Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia. From Nyack, New York, he was here with his wife Patti to do some volunteer work. Sean is retired from the drug and alcohol field, which he worked in for … Continue reading →
Thanksgiving. This morning while volunteering at the “Storefront,” a Catholic Worker outreach here in Cleveland, we met a man who had slept outside last night — the temperature: 20 degrees. We invited him to our apartment so he didn’t have … Continue reading →
We headed into Bowling Green, Ohio where I was interviewed by the Bowling Green Sentinel Tribune. I told the reporter that some 10 years ago, I researched a program called: “Take A Stand for Kids” (TASK) on the Monterey Peninsula … Continue reading →
We attended a conference on “Peak Oil” at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio today. The conference focused on the societal shift that needs to happen now that we’re now on the verge of peak oil production worldwide, and we … Continue reading →
We continued down Highway 95, driving through more desert, more heat (temperatures around 100 today), and into Yuma, Arizona, near the Mexican border. This caps an almost 1,400 mile ‘Hard Ride of 95’ journey for us, and it was now … Continue reading →
I interviewed Dr. David Brooks in Blythe, California. He operates Salude (Health) Clinic here. A significant portion of the community here is poor and Dr. Brooks provides his services through Salude Clinic on purely a donation basis. (He established the … Continue reading →
A recent front page article in The New York Times described the current famine in the country of Niger. Because of drought last year in this country, the second poorest country in the world, one in five young children are … Continue reading →
During Campaign 2004, I gave a talk to a sociology class at Bluffton College about part of my plan for: Jobs in America. I said I believed we needed to be looking at this issue through a “different lens.” And … Continue reading →
Today I met with a family who moved to a small farm in the village of Maria Stein, Ohio a couple years ago. They are from California, and felt compelled to get “back to the land.” They eat their produce … Continue reading →