Once again I’m on an airplane looking ahead to 18 hours in the air in three legs with 7 hours in three airports. After 34 years of flying I have never grown tired of it. Growing up between worlds there is, nor ever will be a perfect “fit” for me in any culture. But the [...]
Why they call it “delivery” I don’t know. You have a pizza delivered – it’s cheap, instant, and painless. Delivering a baby on the other hand, is anything but. A healthy Judah Emrys Bruerd was born 4pm June 4th, 2010 after 13 hours of labor culminating in a dramatic, but uneventful c-section. Araella’s birth was [...]
Recent post I wrote for Blood:Water. “On paper it looked like a fairly straight forward itinerary; 7 days in Kenya’s desert north visiting some of the more remote communities Blood:Water has partnered with over the last several years. In retrospect, it’s hard to really decide what the most exciting part of the trip was: driving [...]
The water is clean, but the container is not. Piped in by gravity flow from over 20 miles away, this water has traveled far to get here only to be recontaminated in the very final stage before drinking. Containers like these were championed by government and large aid agencies as being better than open containers [...]
I bought new camera. Or rather, I bought an old camera. In camera years it’s probably about 200 years old, but in actual fact was made in 2005. 5 years is a old for digital camera. The hype around the latest-greatest is not always hype, but it does tend to bury many of the realities [...]
Matrix 360 is a circuit training workout I created that’s awesome for hotels and on-the-go because it requires no weights. It consists of 6 circuits (or sets) of 6 exercises for a total of 36 exercises covering all major muscle groups. Done over 10 weeks you have 360 total exercises; hence Matrix “360″. For those [...]
“The Butterfly” played by Barak Bruerd on an Overton Low D As an Irish musician (a very flexible term when applied to myself), I have a certain affinity for flutes and whistles. So it’s no small thing for me to have sold my Copeland Low D whistle on ebay. Copeland whistles are the Cadillac of [...]
Article by Dan Haseltine for Blood:Water Mission I was not really prepared. As I turned the corner, my eyes took it in, and I felt my lungs fill with air, and let it all go, as if I had just beheld a great waterfall, or a mountain vista. It was nothing of the sort. But [...]
The alcohol stove, largely unknown in our modern REI world of high-tech camping, dates back more than a hundred years and was the standard cooking device for explorers, adventurers and hobos. Designs vary from an open pool of burning alcohol to double-wall designs that self-pressurizes and a good design will boil water every bit as [...]
Award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century — The World Water Crisis.
Among the biggest reasons for not being a little greener is that it costs money and is a hassle. But most people aren’t taking advantage of one of the most obvious ways to be both environmentally friendly and save some some extra cash: CFL’s. Compact florescent lights. Consider this: lighting accounts for 20 percent of [...]
A number of years ago I found myself inexorably drawn into the realm of woodwind crafting. A tangent of one of my lesser known, and much neglected skills – flute playing. I started off with classical flute in the 6th grade. No, scratch that… I started off with recorder when I was 7 years old. [...]
Marsabit. It’s a bit like Mars, but without the long trek across the solar system. Though after nine spine-rattling hours along a dusty, boulder strewn road, I staggered out of the 4×4 Land Rover looking as if I’d just spent a month in space. The landscape was an incredible mix of red volcanic rock and [...]
Chicken in Every Plot Cheap-chicken ad from KFC hides true cost of food; here’s a tastier, low-cost alternative. Read more…
Reagan to Obama Donald Miller has a an excellent post on his blog talking about his journey in shedding his bias against the democratic party and coming to a positive understanding of what each party has to offer and why he voted Obama. Read more…
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