Plastic Farm AnimalsCamille lives with her soul mate Bob in the back woods of central North Carolina where she hikes, gardens, cooks, and writes.
As I repeatedly mention our preference for a third world lifestyle, I realize not very many people know what I’m talking about. For most people, the third world lifestyle is synonymous with poverty, filth, hard work, unbearable heat, high crime rates, bugs, snakes, rats and disease. It sounds miserable and risky and I see them […]
Most people take their lives seriously, buying a home and settling into a career. This is not the case with our life. We tend to take ours serially – jumping from place to place and from one job to the next. To the casual observer it would seem that our life has no plan. In […]
This entry isn’t supposed to have a point. It is just some random thoughts I was having while walking home from the grocery store this morning. Thoughts about how nice it was to see moist ground after a dry winter. The moisture had lured a fair amount of school kids outside and I remember thinking […]
Kurt Vonnegut pulled out a slew of catchy one-liners for his audience at the Ohio State campus March 1st. Among them: “all the money that should have gone into research and development has gone into executive compensation. If people insist on living as if there’s no tomorrow, there really won’t be one.” “war is a […]
Today, two things happened that really gave me hope. The temperature rose to 70 degrees and I read Ralph Nader’s open letter to President Bush regarding hurricane Katrina, in which he said: Recall your dramatic, nationally-televised choreographed assurance, standing near the French Quarter, that the federal government would take the lead in rebuilding New Orleans […]