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…
Posts published in “Essays”
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…
Carolyn Kiernat, a principal in the Page & Turnbull firm in SF, asked me to submit this opinion piece on her behalf. Page & Turnbull,…
The surfers describe it best: They refer to it as “Answering the calling.” I got it from my dad whose family had been in the…
One day more than 25 years ago my mom called me and asked me to drop by. This was nothing unusual; my parents lived nearby…
Before his birth, Ed Sniece's mother galloped her steed down the cinder traces of the old railroad bed parallel to the river. Her favorite bonnet…