Bob, along with his wife Claire, spends much of his time traveling around the world in “Turtle”, their motor home, and on their tandem bicycle. Bob documents their travels on his own website and shares his insight and experiences with our readers. Bob’s New Bohemians website.
Bob Rogers
January 26, 2009 By
Stop! Don’t Make That New Years Resolution
December 30, 2008 By
I propose the following approach to resolutions: Make resolutions; just don’t make them at the New Year. Any time of year is fine, just not the New Year.
The real gift of Christmas
December 23, 2008 By
The Christmas story is an endearing tale, filled with subtle beautiful meaning, no matter your faith, or depth of belief. What a shame it is lost in a blur of shopping.
Tightening our belts
December 17, 2008 By
Grandpa sheared sheep or wrestled logs at the sawmill 12 hours a day. Grandma washed laundry by hand, kept the vegetable garden, gave birth 10 times and went right back to work. No wonder they could challenge those horses for eating, and still stay slim.
Change really is coming – to your neighborhood
December 15, 2008 By
The core idea of small groups of people meeting to give direction to the government was sound, but became more difficult as people moved from small rural communities to large cities. The Internet has made participatory democracy possible again.
The New Homeless
December 12, 2008 By
These most recent neighbors of ours are not filthy drunken bums in oil leaking junkers. We’ve seen whole families crammed into small cars, trying to sleep upright – while we sleep in our comfy full size bed, complete with reading lights and stuffed animals. We stay at Wal-Marts by choice – they don’t.
Decision Day
October 25, 2008 By
As for John McCain, I wanted to be able to vote for him in 2000, but George W. Bush and his cheats stole that from me. Now I’m not so sure it would have been a good vote even then. I’m very sure it would not be a good vote now. McCain has sold out to the extreme Right, both religious and political. Sorry John – your day has passed.
Greed
October 9, 2008 By
Greed got out of hand; trading up your house every four years would make you rich, guaranteed. It was the World’s largest, longest lasting pyramid scheme. You could borrow against that exploding value and buy all sorts of neat stuff you thought you had to have: big honkin’ trucks that made you feel like a cowboy during the morning commute; TV screen so big you had to buy a bigger house…
Time for a new kind of Tea Party
The idea that a gun toting, brain scrambled, pseudo-patriot could threaten me over expressing reasonable political opinions illustrates just how low our civilization has fallen.