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What made this past Monday’s reunion of my wilderness skills friends even more special was the survival foods we set out to make from our combined foraged, farmed and hunted harvest. With the exception of the flour, everything was locally produced or gathered. I had tried making jerky (from venison I was given) in the [...]

I find issues of the law confusing and daunting, which is why I am profoundly grateful to those who devote their legal skills to the pursuit of justice. According to today’s New York Times, the People’s Library has now officially filed a claim for damage to about 3600 books as well as computers and other [...]

I’m reading Zen Mind, Zen Horse by brain surgeon Allan D. Hamilton. He describes a learning behavior pattern known as an “extinction burst,” which could explain why “right before a behavior is about to disappear (i.e., become extinguished) there is often a burst of increased frequency in the behavior.” In the case of a horse, [...]

This has been a very odd winter, although as I write, the gusting winds and plummeting air temperatures suggest that we may yet see real winter. My ice fishing article is now published in the January 2012 issue of ODU Magazine. I’m on pages 36-38 of this 74-page magazine. Does that make me a centerfold? [...]

I’m looking forward to the publication of my ice fishing article. Meanwhile the editor of Outdoor Unlimited Magazine (ODU) has added my bio. Reading that bio reminds me of some of what I have done in my life. With all I am now doing and the new information available to me, I have to set [...]

An unseasonably warm December left only light dusting of snow, which made the coyote, rabbit and dog tracks very easy to identify, It also meant chopping and hauling a lot less firewood. My Occupy Farm experience must have left me with waves of “up sparkle” energy. As I sat in Port Authority Bus Terminal on [...]

I’m on my way to a farm that has joined the Occupy movement. I know nothing about it except that as a long-term sustainable option, farms make sense to me. You can only sleep on concrete and marble in a city “park” for so long. I have no idea what will happen in the next [...]

The hunter with the rifle was in a better position to take the shot, but it was my doe tag. So thanks to this very generous doe, I now have 35 pounds of venison to prepare in any way I see fit.  Yes, I did take time to thank the doe for giving her life [...]

The last time I showed up at the OWS People’s Library, I learned that the yellow-vested security guards refused to allow any library books to be displayed at Zuccotti Park  during the day. Yes, it gets worser and worser. To add insult to injury,  a published author who I consider a friend, accused me of [...]

Thanksgiving Day was special this year, because of the resilience of the Occupy movement around the world. Occupy Wall Street was the site of an amazing shared feast, music, voice relay messages and library presence at Zuccotti Park. It is also the source for the sense of hope shared by my fellow 99-percenters. OWS is [...]