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 in “Essays”
Edward Winslow’s Good Newes from New-England published in 1624 in London begins its account in November of 1621. There is no word of the first…
Jim Snyder, our High School Principal, sued me in court in Ukiah. I’m still trying to figure out why. Some current news stories feel eerily…
Bob Dylan, now in his 80th year and whose shadow blankets the last half-century of American culture, is both a celebrated hero and a man…
I have always wondered what happened to a corn maze after Halloween. I think about all of the work just put into raising the corn.…
In the early 1980s I did logging work on the Lookout Ranch for the Shandel's of Comptche. My impression was they had purchased the property…
I can still remember that first fare in my New York taxi: an older white-haired woman standing at Union Square on 17th Street. I cruised…
Voters were definitely on edge Election Day, but not so edgy that they couldn’t or didn’t abstain from eating. From coast-to-coast and in what’s known…
Say you walk into a Willits bar. John's place maybe. You order up a draft and start talking sports with the guy next to you.…
On a typical morning in Department 10, one of the four municipal courts on the first floor of the Hall of Justice, 26 people wait…
At least once a year, sometimes more often, I like to take a look at the BAREIS MLS (Bay Area Real Estate Information Services Multiple…