Rev. Dr. Garbage Man

A friend's recent fascination with cryptocurrency has me thinking about money, real money. What is money, really? This is a photo of...

In my last blog, I confessed that I had set out to share a eulogy to the great poet and song writer, Leonard Cohen, who died not long a...

Broken and discarded toys can get to me. We see them every day in the trash. Most of the time I don't think much of it--headless Barbies...

 To my surprise and delight, StoryCorps picked up on Rev. Dr. Garbage Man, and thought my daughter, Charlie might interview him (Dad, Si...

I am impressed by the amount of food that ends up in the trash. I recall somewhere that as much as 40% of the food produced in the U.S. is t...

Words are telling... Take "trash," for example. All language is built on images and metaphors, and "trash" is probably...

I never had a job with a route before this one. I was never a paper boy or a bus driver. When one has a route, one is not rewarded for creat...