From farm to table, we watch one season in the life of an old vine zinfandel at Kunde Family Estate. It took nearly six months for my century-old vine to incubate a crop of zinfandel grapes. Yet when harvest time finally arrived, two men spent less than a minute collecting it. After months of watching my plant come to life, blossom and bear fruit, I had come to think of it as a type of childbirth, and certainly the final weeks before harvest were as tense as those b.

Life as a Student at International Christian University. Wednesday, September 3, 2008. We have learned a lot, Siddhartha, there is still much to learn. We are not going around in circles, we are moving up, the circle is a spiral, we have already ascended many a level. How could this year possibly be summarized? Could I say it was wonderful, though there were times I felt mistreated because of my skin color? .

Not coming soon to an analogy near you. Really great to see things heating up for GROK and NUMENTA. The kinetic turn in philosophy.

Southbound on a Baja Surf Trip. We recently took a short jaunt to Baja to catch some surf. We drive down Highway 395 in the dark, a shame since it is one of the more.

In Search of Swiss Family Robinson and Other Outsider Views of Tobago. When my American friends visited from Miami, a trip to Tobago was an obvious choice. We headed directly to Store Bay and Pigeon Point and got the standard fare out of the way. We then checked into the Blue Haven hotel. Which overlooks a beautiful hidden gem Bacolet bay. There is nothing like the sound of crashing waves to lull you into a restful sleep.