Month: December 2012

Reading Jared Diamond’s ‘Collapse’ this summer prompted me to visualize places as isolated ecosystems. In a way, even though Duwan and I have spent the summer on the dirt, we have been island hopping. Right now we stay in my…

Earlier this year, during our first trip to the Bahamas, I found it a little hard to adjust to life on the boat. When we would watch TV episodes on DVD in the evening, I would devour the details as…