“It looks like a rainbow trout.” My oldest daughter was looking at the rusted Farmall tractor under the shed at my father’s home. The ’49 Cub’s faded red paint had peeled away to blue-grey primer and rust. It had belonged to one uncle and then another before my father decided to take it home and [...]

It has been incredibly hot the last few days here in central NC, with the outside air temp in the movie theater parking lot yesterday hitting 111° according to the thermometer on our truck. It has been at least 104° since Friday, and is expected to hit 105° today before cooling to an even 100° [...]

Someone quickly hit my paypal with about $50K so I can get a bunker built overnight, because this sounds delightful. The largest solar flare in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights. The sun erupted Tuesday evening, and the [...]

This email went out from from Costco last night. It’s kind of cool, actually. We’re learning lessons about “putting things by” that our grandparents and great-grandparents understood as second nature, but that seem to have been lost on a nation that has grown up with just-in-time shipping. I just wish that we as a society [...]