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Posts tagged as “essays”

Luc Is Now Lucy

From the Aug 22 New Yorker: “Sante has long been fascinated by infrastructure. (In an essay for a book accompanying a new show at the…

Dog’s Last Will & Testament

(Note: The following message was discovered three days ago, partially slipped under the edge of the rug where the dog’s bed used to be. It…

The Raven In The Highway

Silver City, New Mexico — On Thursday, I was driving into town and spotted a Raven in the middle of the highway. As I got…

Absolutely Fabulous

There is nothing like an unanticipated dance scene on stage or screen: the twist contest in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (an homage to, among other cinematic…

Surgery Sedation & Dead Hens

I went into Adventist, Ukiah, a week ago last Tuesday — and stayed four days. If you know anyone needing gut surgery I so recommend…

Songs of Expedience

Jonathan Allen of NBC News got a big scoop August 20 when he ran into Dennis Rodman in a Washington, DC eatery. Rodman was in…

Grandma Stubblefield, an American Frontier Icon

I had visited Susan Stubblefield’s grave in Evergreen Cemetery numerous times, had heard about this early Valley settler’s memoirs for years and finally got around…

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the AIDS Epidemic and Me

Dr. Anthony Fauci announced this week that he will be retiring as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a position…

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