Month: March 2014

  • Beating for two

    About a month ago, two cops were on their way to serve a warrant to a man on an attempted murder charge. They were both shot. One, a 43-year-old husband and father, was killed. Thankfully, the other survived, but the community was heartbroken over the entire event. Many spent hours at the site of the…

  • Mobile is live

    I’ve been meaning to do this for years, so thank you Angella for lighting a fire =) My amazing web elf has put together an early version of the site via mobile platform: iPad, droid, iPhone. We still need to test a few things and he’s still fine-tuning a few other things, but LUCKY YOU…

  • Firsts

    Children amazed by the smallest high-rise in the city, the ones uptown where the train stops and destitute men with beards sleep in platform shade and wheel chairs. “He’s just tired,” the father tells the little girl. A three-legged dog hops by the window, she says hello. Her brother looks up, pressing his nose against…

  • How Wolves Change Rivers

    “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” – John Muir When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable “trophic cascade” occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do…

  • Neil’s Not Wheeling Any More #25 March 3, 2014

    Tim sent two emails from San Fran: 1. OK, all international legs done. U. A. Flt #6408 is posted as on time. See ya’ll soon. Later 2. Just as I sent the last, flight delayed about 1 hr. I’ll keep you posted. Steve writes: Nothing is easy. When they cleared customs in San Francisco, Neil…

  • Neil’s Wheeling #22, #23 & #24 (Almost home)

    Neil’s Wheeling #22 Feb 28, 2014 Time writes; Well I know it has been awhile, and here we are in Bangkok staging for the long, wrong way around the world, trip home. All is very well, and we have maintained a pretty incredible and fast pace the last leg down the mighty Mekong. Just as…