My Lyft driver was from Bangkok, and he told me several complicated stories about camping with spirits, the correct way to get a fortune tol...

Tonight I dug out my camping gear and checked out my Death Valley site for this weekend.  I have to stop at REI to buy gas for my little tin...

A few months ago, hoping for a superbloom year, I booked a Death Valley campsite for this coming weekend. No superbloom this year, unfortu...

I suppose this will become condos. How much to live in the bell tower?

I made another baby mat for a colleague’s new baby. This colleague is a yeti-ist. A Bigfoot fan. The bears are just for California.

As I contemplate the paths not taken in my life, and follow through scenarios where if I'd only done X, the Y would have been different,...

As sadness and tragedy accumulate with the passing of years, the best we can hope for sometimes is ambivalence. But more often than not, gre...

Mock Daylight Savings all you want, you philistines. I got out of the house early enough to actually do something today.

I'm thinking about making this year's vacation a trip to Vanuatu around Memorial Day. I was just reading about the main city when I ...

I’m gonna see some ukulele tonight.