When a friend recently told me she was depressed again I offered some suggestions: Time to get distracted by something fun? Like a funny show…
Posts published in “Essays”
In 1969, journalists Andrew Kopkind and James Ridgeway started a Washington-based biweekly newsletter called Mayday. They were soon enjoined by lawyers representing a publication of…
The harsh gods of baseball have rained heavy blows upon me in recent years by stripping the name and emblem from a Cleveland team I’d…
MSA is short for “moving stuff around.” MSA goes way back in my family. I’ve been MSA-ing for 50 years because my annual income has…
Service Dogs are the Marine recruits of canines, fresh from drill camp, ready to take on the world. Service Dogs are single-minded, utterly devoted and…
We’re moving from the East Bay to the Wine Country, one carload at a time. I promised Rosie I would bring all her possessions and not…
How is a mushroom like an apple? Both can be considered the “fruit” of a tree, but while all the branches of an apple tree…
If I had wanted to be more famous than I already was, I wouldn't have moved from Sonoma County, where I lived for 40 years,…
Life is an incredible ride that is at times bumpy, uneven, grueling very much like the streets of Mendo, hahaha! Sometimes there is even a…