I look down at the pile of dog hair, red dirt, bits of dried grass in a neatly swept pile at my feet. I contemplate it. Dirt. It means soil. That’s a good thing. It means filth. That’s a bad thing. It is gossip. It is pornography. It is a pejorative when used as [ Read More ]
Archive for July, 2012
When I decided to move to Oklahoma’s countryside it was because I was faced with not being able to afford to live in California. I built the first house I have ever owned with $48,000 from my California State Teachers Retirement fund. I built it with every environmental trick in the book that I [ Read More ]
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This is a cautionary tale, a tale of hubris and foolhardiness. It is a tale which illustrates the old maxim, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” This is what happened: I was walking through my house. It’s one big room because I have always loved loft spaces and their open floor plan and the [ Read More ]
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