Winter has come to Evergreen, Colorado. The temperatures no longer threaten the seventy degree mark. Even in the midday sun’s warmth there is a hint of deep cold, the suggestion that this is only the beginning of a long freeze. This year the snows are arriving late. It is mid-December and yesterday, for the first time, we had continual snow. It didn’t amount to much, five or six inches. It was a wet, thick snow that froze on the roads as the temperature dropped.    &nb... Read Full Story

The Sunshine Market shows up in the backs of station wagons and temporary tents every Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in a little park in the heart of Hanapepe, “The biggest little town on Kaua’i”. Locally grown fruits and vegetables appear for an hour or so, sold by islanders for a fraction of grocery store prices. When fresh, exotic fruit calls, my wife pulls me out the door and we make the short drive from Poipu toward the windward side of the island. The Sunshine Market is not o... Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Personal Essays and Adventures". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist'... Read Full Story

“It’s all about me!” Some things are so indelibly etched into our framework of electrical impulses, DNA encoding, and sweat and dreams that we rarely question their rationality, let alone their existence. There are times, however, when a psychic knock on the head causes us to stop and look at things anew, to re-focus and examine that which was before seen as a given. Elizabeth has a way of spinning even the most remote of concepts and situations into our daily live... Read Full Story

Jonathon Sachs, writing for the Times Online, recently wrote: "The real battle, and it applies to secular and religious alike, is: can we love, not hate, the people not like us?" At first the question seems self-apparent in the issues it raises. But thinking deeper I realized that there was more, much more, to the query being posited and that the answers lie within the question itself. How do we define 'different than us'? In the United States we live in a soc... Read Full Story

Freedom of Speach is one of the constitutional guarantees that we all seem to understand and protect with a great deal of vigor. It's integrity is essential to a well-functioning democracy. While we have traded many of our freedoms (Patriot Act) for the illusion of safety, most of us would never dream of allowing the government to steal the basic right to speak out. But these abuses do occur on a regular basis. Custom Avenue (CustomAvenue.com) has put together this short video de... Read Full Story

Take this picture: a young child stands in the half-sunlight beneath a group of large pine trees, reaching out to touch the flowers and smell their spring-time fragrance. The child is smiling. The back of her printed dress hangs loosely in the breeze as she bends forward. The picture is a conduit, a reminder of simpler times, of the sun’s warmth and how there are moments when time can stop and the sun can wrap its warm rays around us and coddle us. This momentary sidestep of time ... Read Full Story

Now, it seems, we can bring peace to Baghdad by building a wall, or a series of walls. These walls, no doubt, will partition off an elite few from the violence that is ever-present in the Iraqi capital. No doubt these walls will create an oasis of peace amidst the hell of war. But we shouldn't too soon forget the sage advice of Robert Frost who penned: Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in ... Read Full Story

The Sunshine Market shows up in the backs of station wagons and temporary tents every Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in a little park in the heart of Hanapepe, “The biggest little town on Kaua’i”. Locally grown fruits and vegetables appear for an hour or so, sold by islanders for a fraction of grocery store prices. When fresh, exotic fruit calls, my wife pulls me out the door and we make the short drive from Poipu toward the windward side of the island. The Sunshine Market is ... Read Full Story

I want to be the man standing atop the hill when the next sentient being emerges from the fog of evolution. I want to show that being all of the reasons why the great human experiment failed. Laugh. Go ahead. Think it won't happen. But this can only be thought for two reasons. If you are religious you believe that God will come back and whisk you away on a magic carpet to your personal version of nirvana. Good luck with that! Or, like many, you believe that mankind can think its w... Read Full Story