Rock Creek Hearing the news was a little like the sonic boom from an airplane high in the sky that reaches your ears before you can spot the trailing plumes or the shiny fuselage. It was as if women throughout the country breathed a collective sigh at the news that Rick Perry would not be …
Month: July 2013
Occupy What? Occupy Where?
Rock Creek The weekly entertainment and alternative paper in western Montana is the Missoula Independent. The cover story entitled, “Occupy Missoula: Where are They Now?” caught my eye. Coming on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the movement seems now more firefly than firestorm. The reporter interviewed a half-dozen people who had been …
Solar Power Mitigates Life Off the Grid
Rock Creek When I began camping many years ago with the Boy Scouts, we learned and mastered arcane skills like how to start a fire with a piece of flint, striking until a spark lit the pine straw, how to send messages with Morse Code if lost, how to find true north in the deepest …