My dad's motto was, "If you're going to do something, do it right." He had a thousand inspirational clichés, but that was the one that…
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It is an odd thing to live in the United States right now. The greatest empire in the history of the world has devolved into…
Ed was a stocky 150-pounder I used to train with back in 1979-80. He figured the reason I ran faster than him was because I…
Last Friday night while protesters were being shoved into unmarked vans in Portland by federal paramilitaries, PBS broadcast George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in its Great Performances…
Buzzards perch on blackened redwood stumps just below the house on sunny mornings, spreading their wings wide like avian sunbathers soaking in the rays. When…
It's been an exhilarating two months recollecting and recording past and present times in Navarro. A French philosopher once said something like "...the more things…
Senator Kamala Harris is not the only Assistant DA who once worked for Terence Hallinan and is now in the national spotlight. Kimberly Guilfoyle, the…
I was recently afflicted with a real humdinger of a sore throat while concurrently and intimately involved with someone who’d had close contact with someone…
The phone rings. Rarely a good thing. It’s Zuckerman calling, the wannabe auteur of Monte Nido. He has a notion he wants to take a…