Taking the road less travelled on the adventure of my lifetime. — Dear Medium Friends: This is a post about how we can all seek to establish greater self-reliance and independence. This through examples of the life I am now living and about to change. Considering my continuing pain from a 2016 back injury, and the 27 pills I still take daily, difficulty exists in…

The sounds of the thunder, wind, rain, drops from trees are wondrous — Camping in a tent during a severe thunderstorm warning at night. Last night was an awesome of the powers of nature. With my Great Pyrenees, Maycee, and I, alone in the deep woods of Upper Michigan, the RadarScope app was showing two tornadic supercells off to the west, largely headed in our direction. For the last eight years, Maycee has been…

A month without power in the woods changes your priorities. — Living without electricity turns your world upside down. Twenty-seven days ago my Great Pyrenees, Maycee, and I began camping on family land in Upper Michigan without electricity and many other conveniences. But I would say that not having plugs for my computers, phone, iPad, C-PAP machine, even the Black and Decker 12 volt drill, has turned the way…

I’m learning a new meaning to the term, ‘Life Lesson.’ — Day 21 Living Off-Grid Today is Day 21 of camping, bushcrafting, and existing “off the grid” in the wild woods of Upper Michigan, not far from Marquette. The drive out here is about 15 miles from a major roadway. Food is purchased in town and packed into ice chests. I have no running water…

Bug Spray, Coolers, Great Pyrenees, Tents, Tools — Today marks two weeks since my Great Pyrenees, Maycee, and I arrived in the deep woods to spend as much time as we can off-grid. Has this been easy? Not really. Have outside influences tried to make things troublesome? Yes. When was the last time I saw or listened to…

I’m making a new desk out of maple and it’s going to be beautiful I never imagined that at age 56 I’d be off-grid in the woods of Upper Michigan making myself a new writing desk, but this is exactly what I’m doing. As you can see above, I have…

Setting up a place to live in the woods of Upper Michigan Dear City Dwellers, friends, family, loved ones: I am now on Day Five of living off the grid in the wildness of the woods of Upper Michigan, USA. Out here, I have one bar via AT&T. There is…

Leaving Texas in the morning. At 56, I’m following my dreams. Today I’m closing down my apartment of the last 12 years and in the morning, my Great Pyrenees, Maycee, and I are leaving Texas. For how long? That has the odds makers in Vegas sharpening their pencils. The answer…

Sen. Lindsey Graham et al should propose a constitutional amendment. — GOP Republicans In Name Only in the U.S. Senate, the ones who put forward that “bipartisan” gun legislation last week, can pull all the angry women who are not bothering to read the Supreme Court’s ruling from Friday into their court. How? Propose a carefully worded constitutional amendment. One they…