Unpacked: A Walker Returns Home

Picture this:

You walk to the gym to do some exercise. You go to ride the stationary bikes.

You arrive at your favorite bicycle, and gracefully empty your laundry into the washing machine to which your bike is hooked up.

Your peddling, see, is powering the machine.

Sound crazy?

It most definitely is not. Clever mavens of energy-efficiency have been making manual bicycle laundry machines for years.

So welcome to the future- where energy not only does not pollute- it cleans! (Just remember to remove your clean laundry after you’ve showered.) (more…)

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Passover Time!- Spring, Green, Freedom!

And how do I celebrate my freedom? Or better phrased- how does my freedom manifest itself?

I realize that it’s my job to search out the crumbs in my house, and not in yours. (more…)

Just one more Reserve Duty thought to unpack:

Well, more a story than a thought.

It goes like this…

Over the course of the month, we shared a guard-duty post with soldiers training to become officers. They were in their regular army service, mostly 19 years old or so. We’d stand guard with these young folk, three hours at a time.

One such time, I was talking with the young officer to be, while listening to music he had on his cell phone. (more…)

There are a handful of jobs out there in which the exchange “Have a nice day”- “Thank You” take place, hundreds of times per day.

Markets, toll booths, drug stores- When we talk about “Have a nice day”- “Thank You,” we are, I think, talking about places and moments in which this world might actually be perfect. (more…)

An hour and a gas station’s chip-aisle, and I realize what I will miss most about the army: Following Orders. (more…)