Kimberly, Kamala & Kayo, Continued
Media interest in the dog-mauling case was intense, salacious, and international. The Press Democrat accurately described it as “San Francisco's O.J. Case,”…
Slip-Sliding Away
During all the long years of my fulltime corporate employment I had a skewed view of the world. Not because of boardroom…
Chips
In pre-Covid times a hungry American was on a tour of a monastery. A familiar smell from the kitchen drew him away…
The Navarro Saga: More Memories
Well, it's been a longer journey than I anticipated through my recollections and reminiscences warehouse 49 years of residence in Navarro has…
Journal of the Plague Year (#21)
Berkeley, CA, August 10, 2020 – Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” is an angry book. If you’re not angry…
If You’re Going To Do Something, Do It Right
My dad's motto was, "If you're going to do something, do it right." He had a thousand inspirational clichés, but that was…
Letter From America: An Empire Unglued
It is an odd thing to live in the United States right now. The greatest empire in the history of the world…
Skinnier Isn’t Always Faster
Ed was a stocky 150-pounder I used to train with back in 1979-80. He figured the reason I ran faster than him…
Porgy & Bess in the Time of BLM
Last Friday night while protesters were being shoved into unmarked vans in Portland by federal paramilitaries, PBS broadcast George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in…
Words & Weeds
Buzzards perch on blackened redwood stumps just below the house on sunny mornings, spreading their wings wide like avian sunbathers soaking in…
The Navarro Saga: Random Reflections
It's been an exhilarating two months recollecting and recording past and present times in Navarro. A French philosopher once said something like…
Kimberly’s Big Break
Senator Kamala Harris is not the only Assistant DA who once worked for Terence Hallinan and is now in the national spotlight.…