Volunteer Station Eases Fears as Wildfire Nears Covelo
It wouldn’t take much for the remote Mendocino County town of Covelo to be cut off completely from the rest of the…
The Most Modest of All Stars
Arky Vaughan might be the most famous Potter Valley resident ever, and he’s not famous at all. Ask the next hundred people…
Wap It Good
Don’t run, walk, or crawl towards the Apocalypse. Dance. This most curious form of human movement, unlimited in its variety and meanings,…
A Farm in the City
"My liaison to the medical marijuana community" is how District Attorney Terence Hallinan sometimes introduced me. "Public Information officer" was the job…
Homer Listed as Missing Person
I am supposed to report that Homer was burned up in the recent wildfires, but I can’t bring myself to do it;…
My First Bay-to-Breakers, 1981
The worst part for me about running the 70th annual Bay-to-Breakers was not the 27,300 official registered runners, or even the 10,000…
Stimulation Tour
My $1200 stimulus check was burning a hole in my bank account. It was initially meant for a flight from Sacramento to…
Racism
I realized the other day that I have a racist friend. “Dude, you're a racist,” I said. “Why don't you just admit…
Found Money
Five SOBs, members of the Fort Bragg Seniors on Bikes, were cycling up Sherwood Road this past Sunday, September 6, around 10…
The Centrality Of Story
As an undergraduate at Stanford University I had the chance to study from a breakthrough professor named Sylvia Wynter. Her central thesis…
Water
I’ve been lucky. In every place where I have lived, the water was just fine. My first experience with water had to…
The Russian River Run (June 1990)
The night before the Russian River Run, Sally Miklose calls me from her motel room in Ukiah because her 16-year-old son Jesse…