In 2007, I survived for 28 days in the deserts of the Escalante region of Southern Utah. I was a student of the oldest primitive living school in the United States, the Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS). The course is not for the faint of heart, and has had 3 fatalities in it’s 50+ years. …
I’ll say this for Dr. Jordan Peterson — even after he’s lectured nonstop for 2 hours, when you shake his hand, he gives you his full attention. Being on the receiving end of that focus is a powerful experience. Dr. Peterson: Thank you for being a lighthouse in a world with too many damned weathervanes.
Shortly before COVID, I began resurrecting some artistic skills that had lain dormant for 25 years or so. I began working in charcoal, and concentrated on faces I found intriguing.
Vermin supreme liked my portrait of him so much that he made it his profile picture for a while.
In 2017, I was bitten by a tick. As a result of that tick bite, I developed alpha-gal allergy, a little known (but growing) sickness that would debilitate me any time I ate steak, pork, or any other meat from a mammal. As a red blooded man who loves steak and bacon, this was unacceptable. …