Watch­ing Word­Press Stats, it seems that this hum­ble web­site is start­ing to take off. Since 2007, I’ve penned 35 posts includ­ing this one, and sur­pris­ingly my very first post, Lake Erie Wind­mills, remains one of the most pop­u­lar. Last year a good friend back east sent me his take on the rust­belt econ­omy. His short […]

Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Sky
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I have a con­fes­sion to make. Zen Potluck was never sup­posed to be about pol­i­tics. Visit my About Page and you’ll read my sim­ple pledge to talk about sus­tain­able, con­scious liv­ing, and yes, maybe even food. You see, my part­ner and I like to cook and break bread together. Regard­less of sched­ules, we man­age to commune […]

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by Sky
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Tonight I wrote the fol­low­ing in a dis­cus­sion thread on one of the main­stream media web­sites cov­er­ing the Mass­a­chu­setts sen­ate elec­tion. Thank­fully, direct feed­back has been mostly pos­i­tive and con­struc­tive, which is a hopeful sign.

Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Sky
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The tragic sit­u­a­tion in Haiti is gnaw­ing at me. Like so many oth­ers, my fam­ily is con­tribut­ing to the quake relief effort, and we’re opti­mistic that the world’s over­whelm­ing gen­eros­ity can help improve peo­ples’ lives there. Yet the tragic sit­u­a­tion in Haiti still gnaws at me. How can two coun­tries, Haiti and the Domini­can Repub­lic, share one […]

Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Sky
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