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There’s not a single neighborhood in the world that’s perfect, but the place my neighbors and I built 26 years ago (with a member architect and a contracted developer) dampens…

    What am I doing in this beautiful little town, nestled in a wide Irish-green valley custom-made for grazers? Honestly, I'm on the run. Not from the law but…

The things I love the best are "unprofessional." For example, I’m a fanatical gardener who grows produce for 27 neighboring households for the love of it. And I’m an earnest,…

Our beloved, beleaguered home planet needs humans who are either smarter or dumber. We're bumbling somewhere in between, peering at the primordial birth of the universe with ingenious telescopes yet…

  When a married American male survives into his nineties, it’s probably because he’s finally learned how to be neat. Despite a lifelong procession of role models who dared him…

  Gandhi: "Speed is irrelevant when you're traveling in the wrong direction." Table from THE NEW NORMAL: an agenda for responsible living, (St. Martin's Press) by David Wann