As most people now know, Juliette and I decided to go vegetarian a couple of months ago. I was a vegetarian before and neither of us ate much red meat, so it wasn’t much of a leap. In fact, we both just fell into being vegetarian without much conscious decision. We had decided to try […]

As anyone who knows us knows, both Juliette and I are very concerned about the environment and about the chemicals in our food. It was hard to live up to our standards though because the cost of organic vegetables at the grocery store is prohibitive, especially since both of us are vegetarians. We always did […]

I have finally revived a section of the website entitled Classic Climbs. I created this site in 1997, but I stopped updating it in 1999 and eventually I stopped linking to it because it was looking so out of date and no longer fit with the rest of the site. Climbing at the Gunks last […]

This weekend Tim and I braved the unsettled weather forecast, took Monday off and drove the eight hours to the Gunks for a long weekend of climbing. We drove through driving rain to get to New Paltz, got lost searching for a local climbing camping area called the Grist Mill at two in the morning […]

In 1956, American geophysicist Marion Hubbert predicted that production of oil from conventional sources would peak in the continental United States between 1965 and 1970, and worldwide within “about half a century” from publication. Even though many people have disputed this theory, the facts are that United States oil production peaked in 1971 and the […]