I always have the best intentions of updating this thing but I don't, and they still haven't taken it away from me. I am living on a vineyard in Tuscany in a tiny little town called Montalcino which is the only place in the world a very special wine called Brunello is made. The last few months have been an insanity of movement, Portugal, Spain, ( Read more... )

I am sitting in a Cultural center in the city of Lagos on the southern coast of Portugal, listening to the wavy drone of a Phil Collins concert on the television across the room. It takes about 1 1/2 hours to walk here from the farm we are currently staying at, approximately 8 km of scenic dirt roads populated by under-stimulated german shepherds ( Read more... )

The day has finally (almost) arrived! Tomorrow at 10 PM Bethany and I are boarding a plane to Lisbon from Dulles airport, tonight I'm afraid I might find sleep elusive ( Read more... )

The world seems dark to me lately. Too many people I love are sick, too many people who are never going to be well... Where is the winter? Why does the transition from today to tomorrow, to next month, to next year feel so frantic? Why does fiberglass insulation make me feel so itchy ( Read more... )

I am in Rome, how strange it is to be here. It's a lot like New York with a few less people who speak english. We have been drinking a lot of red wine and beer that is too light, day after tomorrow we are leaving to Venice or Naples, I have to make up my mind... I do not miss my country but I miss a few of the people who live there, now I am ( Read more... )

I am going to Italy at the beginning of December... 25 years and this is the first time my feet will tread on a continent besides North America. I am going with my father and my friend Eileen, she and her wife Kasia have been having no end of problems lately and I hope it will be good for her to get away for a bit, get some distance from her ( Read more... )

I suppose some of the experiences I have had working and living in different parts of the country have had an influence on my organizational leanings. Working at various farms gave me a peek into how our food sources function, it made me realize how unsustainable most of our agricultural practices are and how poor the quality of most food really ( Read more... )

I need to believe it is possible that my life can make some kind of appreciable difference in the world around me, if I believe this is true then it becomes true, if I believe the converse my belief will manifest in reality. I want to bring people together into some kind of inclusive organization that gives them the power to rise together and make ( Read more... )

Just finished watching a disturbing film called "The King" starring Gael Garcia Bernal, incest, murder, and Baptist Texans, yes it is perhaps the last that scares me the most also. Still tying up loose knots in Connecticut, due to a Bethany business trip to Egypt it looks like I will be moving to DC around the first of December...I had a dream the ( Read more... )

it seems that after such a long pause I should have something very profound to say...hmmm, I seem to have forgotten what it was... At the end of a weekend spent with Mom and the broder at this place we've always come to together, a place to eat seafood and look into fires, a place to sit on granite cliffs and quaff potions that loosen our ( Read more... )