“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without the proper deliberation which alone can secure them…
Posts published by “Todd Walton”
International news sources (because American media is mum on the subject) report that a powerful cyclone just blew through the out-of-control and inconceivably deadly Fukushima nuclear power plants, with more such storms on the way.
The first few times I finished writing a novel (each book representing two or three years work), I was gripped by the same terrible fear that I might die before I could make copies of the books and send them out into the world.
“Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Morning: A beautiful day in Mendocino, the rhododendrons madly blooming, the headlands…
Jon Miller, my favorite bard of baseball, recently used the words egregious, preposterous, cerulean, prodigious, and greensward whilst painting verbal pictures of our San Francisco Giants sweeping the Rockies and the Snakes
“One cannot write of ducks without mentioning water." — Ernest Thompson Seton Just when we thought the apex of human stupidity was a toss up…
Though it may at first seem a stretch to compare the struggle to save the historic Ukiah Post Office with the current labor dispute between National Football League owners and the NFL players’ union, similarities abound.
“How’s your back?” asks Marvin, handing me cash for pruning his fruit trees. “Pretty good,” I say, lifting my ladder into the back of my…
One of my guilty pleasures is watching sports highlights on my computer, many of which are prefaced by thirty-second ads for shoes, cars, beer, and the Army.