Earlier I published The Long Work of Getting Better, which made a gentle case that human progress runs on shared knowledge and that we may
Month: August 2026
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The Long Work of Getting Better
My grandmother saved seed. Not because she had a theory about agriculture, but because that’s what you did — you kept back the best of
1956 Chevrolet 3100 panel The truck is parked nose-out in front of the Windber post office, which is roughly where a truck like this would
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Water Under Pressure
Hydrothermal processing is the industrial half of river cleanup, and it has spent twenty years waiting for something cheap to eat. There is a technology
My father kept a small notebook in his porter’s jacket. Names, mostly. Men he’d worked the cars with who didn’t come back to the line
Cernunnos Foundation Motorcycle ride Nature Made Ridin With Robb Riding Down This Road Rock Formations and Canyons Scenic vista
The Salt River Canyon
Downshifting through 2 billion years. There’s a place on US 60 in eastern Arizona where the road stops behaving like a road. The pavement runs
I have a confession, and I’d like to get it out of the way before anybody thinks better of me. I wear my headphones in
Goodbye, Civilization — And Thanks for the Training The moon gets hit Wednesday morning. Some of us have been ready for this since 1980. At
I spent most of a Tuesday in a county courthouse over a matter so small I am embarrassed to name it: eleven feet of ground,