Spring In Her Barefoot Step

April 13, 2012 Barefoot Episodes

After resigning myself to no exercise for all of January and much of February due to upper respiratory illness, I have been carefully adding on the miles and gradually increasing effort in all of my running, biking, and swimming.  The running plan has included transitioning back to totally barefoot running since using running moccasins for [...]

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The Moral Superiority of a Wise Investment Strategy

March 30, 2012 Economics

Do you know who Fredric Bastiat is?  I met him last year when I read this book:  The Economics of Freedom: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You, Selected Works of Frederic Bastiat (Students For Liberty Library) In it he makes a thought provoking comparison between two brothers and their affect on the economy.  One brother [...]

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Late Winter Harvest of Last Year’s Bunching Onions in Omelet

March 18, 2012 Cooking and Food

There are very few things that can be harvested from the Idaho garden in late winter.  Sure, there are some things that may have been stored in the ground, like carrots or potatoes, but these plants are not still growing and often the ravages of winter weather have taken a toll on them by now.  [...]

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