Back in the 1980s, my family and I used to drive from Oklahoma to Maine to visit grandparents, and then back to Oklahoma three weeks later. Whichever way we were headed, we’d spread the trip over five days because six hours of driving was all we could handle with young children in the car. We’d […]

Turkey Tacos Why we love turkey tacos. They are so easy to make, easily scaled up for a crowd or down for dinner for two, everyone loves to customize their own tacos! This recipe is for speedy stovetop or your slow cooker! Ingredients: For the taco meat: 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 white onion, diced 1 pound 94% lean ground […]

Early this year, political correctness killed a favorite book of mine. In March, Dr. Seuss Enterprises (which owns and controls books by Theodor Seuss Geisel) stopped publication of the book, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” saying that it contained imagery they deem ‘hurtful and wrong.’ Mulberry Street is a children’s […]

The reason we bring this up is that national carbon pricing is important.  It is recognized by a full spectrum of economists, conservative to liberal, as key to reducing the role of fossil fuels in our economy, and by climate policy experts as critical for cutting emissions rapidly enough to avert catastrophe. Why do economists […]

Maine is “Vacationland” – it is home to large stretches of natural landscapes and vast forests, including nearly half a billion ash trees that provide a canopy over the state’s great outdoors. Sadly, in the past few years, an invasive pest has entered and is starting to kill Maine’s ash trees. First identified in North […]

One summer when my brother and I were young, we stayed with a family friend so our mother could serve as a counselor at a Girl Scout camp. At some point mom came and got us so we could visit the camp. The girls had gone home and the new batch hadn’t arrived yet, which […]