Winter in California, decades ago. I’d come back from traveling the world for almost two years after graduate school, with the primary aim of reuniting…
Posts published by “Steve Heilig”
There’s an old actors’ trick that advises if you can’t bring on fake tears, just think of when your favorite dog died. It can work…
“Just pick any political meeting you wish, go to it, and write a short report,” ordered our high school “social studies” teacher, way back in…
Game tied, bottom of the ninth. Two runners on base, and any one of us scoring now means we win the whole enchilada. The pennant…
I Do This So You Don't Have To... But it was Quite a Week: Trump recommends an oleander concoction promoted by Ben Carson and the…
Donald Trump is in the White House because of abortion. Not solely that issue, of course, but it was his craven, calculated, and hypocritical embrace…
A tiny bacteria or even tinier virus gets into a flea, who jumps onto a rat, who sneaks onto a boat and then off into…
Being a very fortunate guy, I’ve lived within sight of the California Coast my entire life. I’ve also been a reader and collector of books…
Way back in high school I somehow got the wild idea to ride a bicycle down the entire West Coast, from the Canadian to Mexican…
Just last year I attended a dramatic reading of ancient texts about mortality. What fun, right? But it drew a full house of over 1,000…
The fabled Reggae on the River festival has been through more trials and tribulations than your average 30-something native Californian, with a real rough patch…