by admin | May 8, 2014 | News
A few days before our daughter was born, we learned that our home security was woefully inadequate. This was the late Nineties, in Baltimore. We’d owned our house for less than a year, and the hard-wired system we’d inherited from the previous owners...
by admin | May 1, 2014 | News
It’s rare to be able to trace the birth of an idea to an exact date, but in this case, it was April 13th, 2009. I was flying home from a family trip to Portugal, wedged in the center seat of the middle row of the airplane. The flight was noisy; there were...
by admin | Apr 24, 2014 | News
These days, Japan seems to be in freefall. An aging population; decades of economic doldrums; an energy policy in chaos after the Fukushima disaster — it’s no wonder Prime Minister Abe is indulging in regional saber-rattling. You could say that the country has...
by admin | Apr 17, 2014 | News
Tonight at 8:41, something interesting is going to happen in the night sky. If the weather’s good, you might want to step outside a few minutes early, find a comfortable spot away from the light, and let your eyes adjust. Look to the north northwest. The object is...
by admin | Apr 10, 2014 | News
There are things you should never do in New Mexico. For instance, get thrown from a horse in the middle of the Gila Wilderness, the way Shana was on the second day of our trip. Even if you land well, you’re liable to twist an ankle. Or step heavily on the rocks...
by admin | Apr 3, 2014 | News
Taylor Creek, a meandering stream high in the Gila Wilderness, is on average about five feet wide and a foot or so deep. It would hardly qualify as a rivulet in Perry County, but fresh water is extremely scarce in New Mexico, even in the mountains. For the Chiricahua...
