Archive for the 'New Age + More' Category



Green Building - Constructing a Sustainable Future

Published on July 30, 2008

Green Building - as the name suggests - is the implementation and use of energy efficient building materials.These materials can be divided into two types:
1) Renewables - These include recycled stone and metal - which can then be recycled again, in turn - plant materials like straw or bamboo, and naturally produced materials like clay.
2) […]


A Silent Night Not At My House

Published on May 25, 2008

People say, as they get older their hearing is not what it used to be. I have found this to be true for myself. The older I get, and I plan to get as old as I can, the more I hear noises in the middle of the night. Noises, I might add, that I […]


Heavy Weather Guide

Published on May 1, 2008

Direct Answers - Column for the week of April 26, 2004
My girlfriend and I are basically the same age, just a six month difference. When I went to buy the engagement ring in February, I felt certain she was the right one. She accepted my proposal by saying, “If we go slow…”
We’ve been […]


I Hope I Die Before I Get Old - Or, Maybe Not!

Published on April 1, 2008

“I hope I die before I get old”
~ The Who, “My Generation”
As a junior in high school, this lyric was the motto by which I lived my life. I was 16, I had a part time job, a letterman’s jacket, a 1972 Pontiac and a mullet. What little philosophy on life I adhered to […]