Author Archives: thomasfarley01
Getting Ready for Quartzsite
Quartzsite is a small town in the Arizona desert that each year plays host to rock and gem enthusiasts from all over the world. These rockhounds, prospectors, and lapidary people come to meet hundreds of vendors selling everything rock and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, flea markets, gem, history museum, mineral, QIA Pow Wow, Quartzsite, rock, Rock&Gem Magazine, winter in the desert
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That Was Intense!
“An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.” From the movie Repo Man. This morning I had Mohs surgery to remove a basal cell carcinoma from underneath my left … Continue reading
Reflections on a Black December
Now that I am feeling better, with my violent nightmares having subsided, I wanted to write about how concerned I am with the rising suicide rate in America. As medicine is practiced today, I don’t see hope for its decline. … Continue reading
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Tagged mental health, modern medicine, suicide, suicide rate
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Goldfield Gemfield Gem Claims Update
My second article for Rock & Gem Magazine was on the Gemfield Gem claims (internal link) outside of Goldfield, Nevada. The claims are a major source of fine chalcedony. Sharon Artlip, one of the two claim owners, now has a … Continue reading
You Can Justify Anything With The Internet
Today I read a well done article at a major business website. The piece was informative but the writer misspelled the name of the country of Colombia. He wrote Columbia instead. That’s a common and simple mistake. It might have … Continue reading
Lost and Found in T.S. Eliot
My book is about rockhounding and prospecting in the Southwestern United States. At its heart is exploring. In peppering my book with quotations, I’ll have some thoughts from people who have wandered the world. But all that exploring may come … Continue reading
