Almost everybody seems to agree that the Mendocino/Sonoma coast is some of the most beautiful landscape on the planet, and many of us who feel…
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If you think golf is not only a great form of recreation or business meeting, but a grand metaphor for life and politics, if you…
Seattle hosted the baseball All-Star Game a few weeks ago, so the city, of course, cleared all the bum encampments within parking distance of the…
When I was a young boy it was not necessary to pay any money to women. Later I paid money to a few women to…
For music lovers possessed of even a dollop of reason September was a grim month as paeans to George Gershwin crescendoed toward mega-sforzando on the…
Selma sat in a corner of the big couch in her parents’ living room, hands folded neatly in her lap. Her father stood in front…
I was riding a city bus to the diner for breakfast, and on the way, I glanced out the window and noticed a bum sprawled…
Late on a sun-baked October afternoon in 1995, an attractive, 60-ish woman named Jodine Lesieur drove home after a long day cutting hair in her…
And then there’s Bali, a name of guaranteed glamour, known to all. Before the Second World War, I had heard of incomparable Bali from aristocrats…