9.1.08 | I have been slapped in the face by globalization. I can’'t say I wasn’'t warned: my next-door neighbor told me all I would find in Arizona were the “5 C’s”: Cattle, Citrus, Climate, Copper and Cotton. And he was, unfortunately, right on.

8.18.08 | Every cheesy teenage “slasher” movie includes the same scene: the victim opens the attic door and peers into the blackness. What lurks within is evil and she knows it – but she ventures up the stairs nonetheless. Fool.

8.11.08 | Without water, life as we know it would be impossible- –especially in the desert. Scarcely a day goes by in Arizona without some mention of water-rights issues.

8.11.08 | Kathleen Vick has me thinking. About solar energy. In her Eco-Issues article in last week’s officeinsight, Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is, she offers great research. And great spirit. I applaud such thinking …and planning and calculating and determining and measuring and consulting and specifying and marking and installing and inspiring.