The Well Run Dry

It is my honor to host this week's Festival of Frugality . As I stated in my last post, the “Festival of Frugality” is a “blog carniva...

Few people are rich enough or powerful enough nowadays to avoid facing the worrisome future that looms over us, a future brought on us by o...

Here are a few tips for bicycle commuting. If any readers have more tips, feel free to send them in. If you have to ride a fair distance...

Now it is time to consider publicly-owned, publicly-provided mass transit as one more strand in our safety net scheme. Mass transit has ma...

Many thanks to Ahavah Gayle, author of the blog Shalom Bayit ( http://shalomhabayit.blogspot.com/ ) for the following news items: Firs...

I am in the preliminary stages of writing some closing posts on the subject of alternative transportation. Those posts will provide a few ...

It's been a rather wild year, and there's no doubt that we who have lived through it have become partakers of the ancient Chinese c...