… the death of newspapers

Did you know that newspapers are going away? They are, and at the rate they’re sinking, the form they’re in 10 years from now will be hardly recognizeable. No one’s fault, really — it’s called ‘the internet’ and it delivers more information that you really care about in a second than […]

Finishing up our quick cruise with a stay in a really great hotel, I picked up a book in the room called “On Art and Life” by John Ruskin. I’m not sure anyone was really supposed to read it — it had the look of something that was placed there to lend an artsy atmosphere […]

Hanging out in a little town in central Missouri last week, I saw an old factory. Because of the seminar I’d just been sitting in on, it caught my eye. It was falling apart, probably unused and unoccupied for decades. The situation in rural Missouri is the same as it is all over the country: […]