The Anthropocene is the name of the present stage of the Earth’s geological history in which human activities have so transformed the environment to warrant a new epoch. The previous epoch, the Holocene, has encompassed the whole of human history, up
Me: I'm writing a novel about a young man trying to find his way toward a meaningful and rewarding career. He is 21 years old and attending a big 10 university in the
Plato once described the origin of sexes as the separation of an original creature with four arms and legs torn apart by the gods. The myth is an explanation of the origin of
I'm an Uncle now. My sister and brother-in-law have a daughter and she is one year old this month. She grows by leaps and bounds in every way, drinking in the world like
There was a window of time when life was, for me, unlivable and I retreated for weeks at a time to the California coast, as a refugee, living out of my small pickup
What could be more natural than building a home for yourself? And, yet what is more rare than doing just that? I'm not talking about hiring an architect and a builder and collaborating
A state of unrest can result from the fatigue of inaction as easily as from the fatigue of over-exertion. In my life I have felt the latter more often. In fact the harder