Blog from the Kootenays on Life, the Universe and Everything

Welcome to my home on the web. I have Blogger blogs that distinguish between different themes. Rants, Garden, Life, more or less.
Find them here: http://www.freegreenliving.com

Here on Multiply it is a cheerful mix. Daily life and memories, reviews, rants and more thoughtful essays, whatever pops up.

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Open letter to Steven Harper

This one repeats much of "pipeline thoughts" . Reworked for posting to papers etc. Sir, I have spent most of my adult life in a forest-dependent area, and seen first-hand how a community suffers when the jobs disappear.... more

Previous blog entries:
Jan 21	-	The poverty experience
Jan 21	-	Another example of SF trying to become reality.
Jan 20	-	A small rant about re-inventing the wheel
Ieneke 's favorite blog entries:
Dec 22	-	Happy Solstice!
Nov 27	-	Friday Five: When will you get ready for Christmas?
Dec 21	-	Sound the Horns! Ring the Bells! It is Solstice, the Reason for the Season!
Dec 20	-	Between Merry and Bah Humbug
Nov 25	-	Credo
Feb 16	-	Touched by His Noodly Appendage
Feb 10	-	Fat Cows, Skinny Cows, thoughts on economic cycles.
Dec 13	-	A Rant against Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer
Dec 8	-	Merry Christmas from a Taoist Pagan.
Nov 11	-	Holiday proposal

Testament of Youth

World War I killed a generation of the best and brightest young men of the participating countries. They volunteered by the thousands, filled with high ideals of heroism and sacrifice "For King and Country". Or the Emperor, or La Patrie et La... more

Previous reviews:
Oct 28	-	Blessed are the Cheesemakers
Oct 24	-	The Red Queen
Feb 23	-	Oryx and Crake AND The Year of the Flood.