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In 2019, the Lyme Timber Company purchased 675,000 acres in the Upper Peninsula (Michigan) and northern Wisconsin. That amounts to approximately 6.4% of the total acreage in the UP. Their website and publications make ample use of words like “sustainability,” “conservation,” “sustainable forestry” “carbon sequestration,” and “renewable resources,

Things You Should Know About Texas (Before Moving Here) My purpose in writing this isn’t to hate on Texas. It has a lot of great attributes. But, like any place, it has its peculiarities, some of which are extreme. My intent is to highlight a few of those things

What Type of Door Knob Should I Use? This is something that’s really easy to get right but for some reason it’s usually done wrong. Every apartment and house that I’ve ever lived in had the wrong type of door knobs throughout the interior of the house.

A Pretty Good Interior Painting Process Every few years I find myself remodeling the interior of a new dump that we’ve just moved into. And, just enough time passes between remodels that I have to think through and carefully plan the paint job before I begin. Given that I’

Last month my wife and I re-homed our hens after raising them from tiny chicks and caring for them for more than two years. Watching them leave, and knowing that we had failed them was devastating. I’m writing this with the hope that I prevent someone else from getting

I was on the road today and was, of course, listening to NPR in order to pass the time. Their Think show was on at the time and the host was interviewing Paul Bloom, a psychology professor at U. Toronto as well as a professor emeritus at Yale. He’s

This is a great little book that I find myself picking up at least once a year for re-read. Its subtitle is “Brief thoughts on making the most of your life,” and it is by far the most concise and valuable guidebook I’ve found on the topic. Peter Atkins