Mikes Thoughts

It was some years ago when I worked on this rather large project down in a remote corner of the Western Mojave desert.  The location was pristine and I doubt whether too many others ever ventured there. We drove up there in 4×4 vehicles with RWR along a barely maintained desert road.  The road was [...]

Its come to me more than a few times writing this weblog that all we can do is present.  Present ideas, theories, plans, and do a part of communication.  One of my anthropologist friends reminded me often to do both parts of communication; namely listening and talking.  Communication is not a one-way media and if [...]

Blog tags are always interesting.  I have a number of so called categories or tags or whatever that I can choose.  Sometimes I pick one when the post I am writing seems appropos to some special area or place.  Other times, I feel like playing a bit and not even selecting one.  But the special [...]

Its come to me more than a few times in the ongoing creation of this never-ending weblog that I really have no questions.  If I have no questions, I guess I also do not have answers.  Real questions are hard to come by and every so often I do come across one and its been [...]

Its quite an interesting world we live in.  Witness the fact that my wife and I finally got a “nanny” that comes over on occasion and plays referee to our two bundles of joy.  Its not like either of them really need what could be called a babysitter; but I’m sure parents understand that the [...]

At the most self-aggrandizing, self-fulfilling, and prophetic moments, I am but a mirror to the archeologist and anthropologist that lives within. Some mornings I wake up, full of potential, waiting for some cosmic action or reaction. My son and daughter greet me or me them. They are my genesis, my blood, my [...]

This is more of a interesting story perhaps because today I caught myself back in archeology for some period of time; telling stories of what it was like to wander the deserts, forests, and American Southwest. We all went to a Macaroni Grill for lunch and you can draw on the tables there. [...]

I resisted writing yet another anthropology blogpost for awhile because I guess I was gathering up some stuff that I think of on occasion. This post takes me back to a class in non-verbal communications I took as a graduate student in anthropology. We had an interesting discussion one afternoon which somehow foreshadowed [...]

Blogging has become this way for me to reach things whether its anthropology, archeology, Linux or places of my heart and soul and mind. I think we all need some kind of communication media that allows us to posit the strengths and weaknesses of the human condition we find. Today, I was in [...]

Interesting perspectives from an old friend that does human osteology (or did). We talked via email about some of his changes and how after many years of traveling up to Alaska during the summers for work, this last summer of 2005 was his last. At 49 or so human years, he went through [...]