Want to live past the hundred-year mark with a level of health that would tint a current fifty-year-old with envy? Thanks to modern science that goal becomes more attainable with each passing day. But where previous advances in the pursuit of immortality have centered on the ways in which science can invent our way… Read more »
I had been living in West Africa for over a year when I decided the time had finally come to start a chicken farm. As a Peace Corps volunteer, everything I did was an oddity to the community that hosted me, and my approach to chicken keeping was no different. In my small village… Read more »
In 1975, my parents left New York City for a tiny one-room cabin in rural New England. It was a textbook example of back-to-the-land Hippie idealism. Tucked away amongst hidden maples and pines, their little retreat was everything New York was not — wood stove, outhouse, a forested Eden to entertain their long-haired, grass-smoking… Read more »