Northern and Southern California might as well be two different countries.  Butterfinger and I just returned from our whirlwind tour of the Bay Area, and we now have our sights set on moving somewhere between Santa Cruz and San Francisco.  All I can say is that Butterfinger was totally right - I really love it up there:)  In just two days, most of which were spent in Grimace, I think we have really found a place that will work with our unique lifestyle, while being surrounded by other like-minded people also motivated to suceed.  I can see how those words may come across as sounding overly idealistic and fantastical, but there really is no other way to put into words the positive change I experienced by just changing my geography by a couple hundred miles. (more…)

October 2nd, 2008 | The House | No comments

Predictions of the Year 2000 - The Ladies Home Journal, December 1900

“What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”

From Ladies Home Journal (December 1900), “These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from the most learned and conservative minds in America. To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001 - a century from now. These opinions I have carefully transcribed.” (more…)

September 16th, 2008 | The House | 1 comment