Ed Medley

Many years ago, we were walking along a miserable stretch of Pennine Way.  Once a cobbled Roman road it had become a rutted farm track; bounded by low, gray, wet rock walls. Clag was down to the ground - so some would say it was foggy. But we were  in the mountains, and it was wet, chilling, gray clouds we were walking through. Continue reading →

California is the birthplace of much that is odd. Hurrah!!

But recently, the State Legislature abolished the California State Board for Geologists and Geophysicists and tacked the rump onto the State Board for Professional Engineers and Licensed Surveyors. Continue reading →

In 1994-1995 Julie and I lived in London. It was newish to her; oldish to me since I had lived there between 1953 and 1969. I had accepted the invitation to be an Academic Visitor at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, University of London.  No money could be paid to me but it was honor all the same. In our late 40′s we said “What the Heck – Lets have an adventure!”  Julie quit her job and for the first time in her life, did not have another one to got to. Continue reading →

A friend called me about two weeks ago, giddy with the excitement of a crazy new romance. She was excitedly flushed with urgent juices. She is a creative, literate woman; and in her bright-eyed joy was reading poetry again, and loving Christina Rossetti’s 1859 poem Goblin Market. Continue reading →