Budget cuts have hit the California State University system hard this year. Getting classes is proving near impossible for some students as demand has risen while course sections have been reduced. Frustration and confusing reigned supreme in the first week at San Francisco State…

My household was a flurry of activity this morning; we rolled out of our beds and fired up the computers to stream the inaguration. It’s surreal to think that W is gone. Certainly there is already something to celebrate - science got numerous mentions today and even the “non-believers” were acknowledged. Now, we wait with [...]

I’m getting tired now and burning up lots of country, chasing the sun into the Pacific.
But I’ll be back again, or so I tell myself.

My last stop in the coastal south was a utopian outpost in the forest - part intentional community, part hostel. Guests are asked to help with chores and are required to keep personal technology hidden away in their private quarters. A hippie colony in Georgia I did not expect to find. It’s the typical custom [...]

Somewhere in Mississippi, driving from Jackson to New Orleans, I spotted Lance on his northbound walk along Highway 61. I u-turned and walked out to great him. “I’m walking up the Mississippi River and praying for the country.” In our short ten minutes together, at least a dozen passerby slowed dramatically; a parade of supportive [...]

Like many towns trying to distinguish themselves and build higher level economies, Asheville stakes a lot on it’s arts district. It’s certainly the most successful example of this I’ve seen. Hardly a novelty here, the town is known nationwide for being the hip jewel of the south and cultivates that reputation. Galleries and open studios [...]

“The Holidays” are an odd time for to be on the road alone. Driveways burst with out-of-state license plates - family caravans arriving late into the night after braving Midwestern ice and wind, the dreaded Lake effect, and gas station gourmet. Candles in the windows of neat white clapboard houses and from the car, quick [...]