Chavez and the price of gold
Hugo Chavez’s decision to repatriate Venezuela’s gold reserves may be the most underreported story of the summer. I’ve been wanting to write about it for days, but dealing with a cranky toddler in the...
View ArticleAre British conservatives coming to their senses?
In the wake of the London riots, there were no shortage of ”I told you so” editorials aimed at the Left. “You see what the nanny state and the destruction of traditional values has wrought?” Leftie...
View ArticleLibyan rebels save the US dollar
Maybe you saw yesterday's news about £140 million (US$234 million) of freshly printed currency - paper, fiat currency - being flown bythe Royal Air Force from England to Libya. Another US$1.5 billion...
View ArticleWikileaks: China says U.S. suppresses price of gold
From the latest Wikileaks document dump, US embassy cable – 09BEIJING1134:“According to China’s National Foreign Exchanges Administration China ‘s gold reserves have recently increased. Currently, the...
View ArticleMother love
My 20-month-old daughter ran into a door frame the other night. Forehead first and hard. The screaming gave proof that at least she hadn’t knocked herself out. But the instantaneous appearance of a...
View ArticlePalimpsest
Imagine an eleven-year old girl alone, miles from home, in one of the last great wildernesses on earth. She has no idea who or where she is. For, spread over the wilderness as a palimpsest, is a veneer...
View ArticleWild Kingdom
One morning Dad found big cat tracks behind the house. Were they made by a cougar? A bobcat? Were those the same species? We didn’t know, never having seen one except on television. We weren’t even...
View ArticleGrizzly Country
In the trophy room of Kinnaird Castle in Scotland hangs the massive skull of a bison bull killed in the country northwest of the “elbow” of the South Saskatchewan River. The year was 1859. “No one,...
View ArticleRock of Ages
The first and only time I was at Red Rock was a blustery fall day with the chill of winter in the air. Of course, during my childhood, Dad had spoken about his time at Red Rock, a one-room school a...
View ArticleThe Age of Discovery
The cowboy was headed straight for the empty seat beside me. Inwardly, I groaned. I had been looking forward to staring out the bus window - thinking (well, daydreaming, really), reading - for the...
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