After digging out of the Big Snow of ’75 I checked in at the Mendocino County unemployment office in Ukiah because my six months of…
Posts published by “Jim Gibbons”
The recent drought in Northern California made me think of the last one back in the mid-seventies when I was living about six miles up…
Drought has a way of changing everything. The latest mandatory rationing in Brooktrails is 110 gallons a day per household. In Willits it’s 150
My first day at Willits High School (1984-1985) was very interesting in a weird sort of way. I had no literature classes, just 8th, 9th…
There I was up on stage with my four teammates in front of the entire student body being praised by my coach for qualifying to…
It was my very first sixth-grade faculty meeting at Little Lake Valley Middle School. There were just four of us, all men, but we were…
It was just me and my son Riley leading the 17th Annual Boontling Classic 5K runners west on Anderson Valley Way to the turnaround. As…
Two years ago last December I was hanging out in my Waikiki condo watching the evening news when the top story was about a hiker…
It was just me and my son Riley leading the 17th Annual Boontling Classic 5K runners west on Anderson Valley Way to the turnaround. As…