Saving the earth through recycling is big business, judging by the number of can and bottle buyers set up in parking lots and empty corners…
Posts published in “Essays”
A number of companies currently producing consumer goods have, in response to a large and growing number of Americans who pretend to care about the…
What was her name? She modeled for him twice. The four paintings he made of her sold before the paint was dry. Something about her…
Long before wine grapes and marijuana, family farms were Mendocino County's dominant feature. Timber sustained several thousand families who were able to take home enough…
Many locals were saddened to see the demolition/rennovation job that is taking place at the Live Oak Building in downtown Boonville over the past week…
Science. It's how things get figured out. It's the root of progress and knowledge and understanding. It's the whys and hows and wherefores, the keys…
I have now lived in Mendocino for ten years, nine of those partnered with Marcia. Our little town gets flack for being a tourist trap, and there is no question that tourism and cannabis fuel the local economic engine, but so do carpentry, plumbing, school teaching, real estate, dentistry, nursing, doctoring, selling groceries, photocopying, and writing speculative fiction to name a few of the many things humans do hereabouts to make money.
Talking about politics is not something I enjoy much, and we know all too well there is more than enough commentary everywhere on the absurd…
Praise the sweet Lord, spring training has rolled around once more. As George Carlin once said, “Baseball is different from any other sport. In most…