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Posts published in “Day: July 27, 2016

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, July 28, 2016

Hot Interior;
Bear Popped;
Rainbow Pete;
NPR Fantasies;
Aigner Commendation;
Cloverdale Stiffed;
Imaginary Invaders;
La Cucaracha;
Free Eros;
Recent Catches;
Lefty Lonely;
Delegate Report;
The News;
20-year Marriage;
Convention Notes;
Huff's Puff-o-gram;
Gypsy Moth

Out Of The Frying Pan…

I was out on a midsummer skulk in classic thief's habit, head-to-toe black and making no more impression on the night than the shadow of…

Recovery: Back From The Brink (Part 2)

On Friday after the accident, while I was in the Modesto hospital, our insurance agent told us they had found a place for me to go for physical therapy. It's a nice place, they said, just down the road a few miles, so I would be leaving the Modesto Hospital (where they operated on my crushed ankle) the next morning, Saturday morning. They picked me up in an ambulance, loaded me up and took me down the road to this rehab place.

Chicago ‘68

In the spring of ’68 I’d been hired as an editor at Ramparts magazine. The office was on Broadway off Sansome Street in San Francisco.…

More Menebroker

I recently wrote a piece about my friend Ann Menebroker, the fine poet who died recently at the age of eighty. In response, I received a number of communiqués from people who wanted to read more snippets from Annie’s letters, so I present them here with one of Annie’s poems.

Getting To The JMT

By the time readers peruse this issue of the AVA, yours truly should be embarked on a 75-mile section of the John Muir Trail (JMT).…

Letters (July 27, 2016)

As I read the recent article about the upcoming ballot measure regarding mental health services, I find myself both excited and worried.

It is absolutely time for Mendocino County to once again have an in-patient psychiatric unit. But it would be an absolute mistake for the County to operate it.

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