organizing unorganized religion

One of the interesting things I find about attending a Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship is that it is a wonderfully undefined entity. By self-definition, it is a group that avoids adherence to any creed. As a result, we have a wide variety of faiths, traditions, and beliefs melding under one roof. In short, unorganized [...]

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ship your firewood to Alaska, apparently there is a market

Today I had to stop and fill gas. It is one of my least favorite things to do, but I couldn’t put it off any longer. Let’s just say it is a good thing I live up hill from town. We always fill at the east Fairbanks Fred Meyer’s store because we [...]

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contrarianism, alive and well in the far north

I woke up and got moving early (for me) this morning. I got on the computer, checked the headlines, answered an e-mail or two, deleted all the spam, and got Jane (wife) and Jolie (8-year old) up to go to work and school, respectively. Normally it works the other way around, I get [...]

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my Unitarian-Universalist story

I was asked to give my “Unitarian-Universalist” story to introduce today’s service, and to light the chalice, which we do to kick off our Sunday gathering. I had put something together last night, in order that I could sleep on it and get it settled into my brain for presenting to the [...]

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Fairbanks street corner folly

A phenomenon unique to Fairbanks, at least in my experience, is the hand held street corner sign. It isn’t rare to see the sign bearers out in every Fairbanks’ season; braving the ice fog throughout our 8 months of winter, dodging splashes from passing cars during the 1 soggy week of breakup (commonly referred [...]

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a fallen soldier

Last summer (summer of 2007), in the midst of a run of casualties suffered by Alaska based troops, I happened to travel to Anchorage on a business trip. During that time period it was fairly common for me to go from Fairbanks to Anchorage and back home again in a days time, catching the [...]

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align the constitution with god. mine

Finally!!! A candidate for president finally said it. Let’s update the constitution to be in line with god’s laws. I couldn’t agree more. Kudos to Mike Huckabee for saying what so many have been thinking for so long. It is time to throw out the constitution, time to start over [...]

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The Credit Card Resistance Movement (CRAM)

Today, while trying to resurrect our paper shredder after I once again fed it too many credit card applications, I recalled a lonely period of passive resistance I engaged in against the credit card industry a few years ago.  I’m convinced all my resistance movement needed to succeed was a way to enlist members, to [...]

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sunset on sustainability

Sunset printed an article in their January 2008 issue that offended my sustainability sensibilities (say that 5 time as quick as you can). They had an article about a second home, a cabin to be accurate, that they referred to as “true sustainable living.”
I disagreed, see below.
Dear Sunset,
In your January 2008 Issue, I took [...]

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how do you like your wishfull thinking- with or without drugs?

I’m about a third of the way through the book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. As I mentioned in my previous post “not so ordinary wolves” I took this book on as a bit of a challenge, an opportunity to turn my thinking on its head for a while. To this point in [...]

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