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I. Top five investment areas for the near future: Insulin Tattoo Removal Hearing aids/devices (thank you, iPods) Bed bug eradication Foot and ankle clinics II. Top five things you miss when they’re gone that aren’t people: Toilet paper Knees Small local businesses In-season Favre Jokes Hair on your head III. Top five reasons to flip …

Several months ago, I watched Frontline’s report entitled Digital Nation. I admit I came to it with a preconceived notion that these darn kids and their digital lives were no good. While I like gadgets and have plenty of my own that I’ve integrated into my life, I still come from a generation in which email didn’t …

Louis L’Amour was a great author because he didn’t waste his pen on self-referencing overly precious naval-gazing pretentious trendy bullshit. Generally, when opening up a Louis L’Amour book you could expect to find a man, a gun, possibly a woman or two, and justice to be dealt, all cleanly wrapped up in down-to-earth humanness. He …

Reading this article about the Chris McCandless story brought a strange measure of relief to me. The McCandless story seemed like some kind of idealistic golden fleece. The book by Jon Krakauer had had a profound effect on my thoughts about possessions, life, and what seemed an impossibility to achieve for any kind of purist. …

Several years ago I blogged about the missile site that my family owns. It’s been on my dad’s land for as long as I can remember. Back in March of 2009 I was contacted by a writer, Beth Goddard, who was working on a book which was set around such a site. She had pretty …