This will be my last column written in Battle Creek (I will continue to write from sunny Florida!) I’m leaving to pursue a long held interest of bringing naturism/nudism to America. Some readers will recall the occasional column I have done on nudism. Nudism is a philosophy of living based on healthy living, fresh air, sunshine, exercise, respecting oneself and others and living without clothes when and where possible. It is a particular passion of…
After 6 months in the Sunshine State I’ve returned to Battle Creek. Being reminded by friends of the judgement of someone who spends the summer in Florida to return in time for winter here suggests pleading for tentative credibility for observations I felt worth sharing.The first: Weather doesn’t trump everything. Florida weather is sunny, hot and, part of the year, (winter) delightful. In the summer..beastly…as much too hot as Michigan is too cold in the…
As we survey the wreckage of the recent political (largely negative) combat with the concomitant spectacle of contestants trashing each other, one wonders “Where is the tolerance?” As Scott McNeely, former head of Sun Microsystems famously said when asked about Internet privacy, “There isn’t any … get over it.” But what is it, exactly that we are getting over? Tolerance is viewed with deep suspicion by many Americans. People who are tolerant are often seen…
