The Latest in My Great 2025 Downsizing Campaign

Friends have encouraged me to downsize for well more than a decade. I’m making progress!
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The World of Error in a Galaxy of Facts

Clay ponders the “Truth Taser.” The best invention since the Veg-O-Matic?
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Natalia (Nat) and Michael (Mikey), two British school teachers, are currently on holiday in the US. They are canoeing over 3000 miles from Three Forks, Montana, down the Mississippi to New Orleans.

UPDATE: Two Brits and a Wee Paddle From Montana to New Orleans

Featured on our podcast last week, LTA followers have asked for an update in the saga of Nat and Mikey, a couple of Brits currently paddling from Montana to New Orleans.
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Inspired by Thoreau and the inevitability of time, Clay undertakes sorting through a six-decade collection of thousands of books.

My Adventures in Downsizing

After spending five or six decades buying books, an enormous number of books, I have begun to downsize.
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The Meriwether Lewis monument commemorates the gravesite of the co-captain of the Lewis and Clark Expedition along the Natchez Trace Parkway in Tennessee.

Visiting Meriwether Lewis’ Grave on the Natchez — The End of the Trail

Completing a year following the Lewis and Clark Trail, Clay visits the lonely gravesite where the 35-year-old Meriwether Lewis is buried.
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Author John Steinbeck at work.

Steinbeck: A Life of Moral Courage

While he avoided the public spotlight, John Steinbeck spent a life "in the arena" exhibiting great moral courage both in his writing and deeds.
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Were They Dreaming? A Rare Visit Inside John Steinbeck’s Iconic Rocinante

Clay and sidekick, Russ Eagle, spend time hanging out in John Steinbeck's historic truck camper, Rocinante.
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Approximately 250 Lakota men, women, elders, and children were killed on December 19, 1890, at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD

Reopening the Wounds of Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee, really?
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Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail marker.

The Stubborn Enigmas of Lewis and Clark

After decades of close study and a year following their trail, Clay remains dogged by the many unknowables surrounding the famous American expedition.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live promotional poster

Humor on Trial in an Age of Disruption

Free speech and the future in context.
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