Resume 1980-1990
Some earlier Publications and Research Papers
Al Through the Ages
Photographs of an aging Al
Questions about your place in the world
Class in Geographic Landscapes in the late 1980s
Geographic Education
Oregon Geographic Alliance Meeting Eugene, Oregon March 29, 1988 Geographic Fundamentals Every time I am ask to speak I have a good excuse to give some special thought to some ideas that have been of concern to me. The concern that came to me when Joe Searl asked me to talk tonight was “What is […]
Autobiography
Autobiography The questions I now want to address are: What are the events that have contributed to the gestalt that is Me? What are the social institutions that have filtered my existence? What are the spatial arrangements that have influenced my pathways through life? In what ways have I been creative? In what ways have […]
What is Geography?
I have been asked many times what do geographers do or study because the last time many people thought about geography was in elementary school where the emphasis may have been on the location of countries, states, and capital cities or knowing the principal products of places. Well, that is like thinking of history as […]
Privileged Life
A Privileged Life Looking back at the nearly 90 years of my life, I realize that I have been one of the most privileged humans ever to have lived at any time since humankind became self conscious. I have male privilege, white privilege, English language privilege, American privilege, and the privilege of good health and […]
Frustration after 2020 election
My post-election thoughts. Letters to my senators. As our President-Elect would say? “Come on, Folks. Let’s get real.” We are an animal species. And like all animals we eat and we shit. Now, there are nearly 8 billion of us eating and shitting. And each of us has been eating exponentially more every year since […]
My Life and Times–A Sketch Only
Growing up in Portland, Oregon I grew up in Portland, Oregon, during the Great Depression, My family always had food on the table and a roof over our heads even as my father was without steady employment. In some ways, Oregon was still a frontier. The forest of the nearby Cascade Mountains were clothed with […]