They’re driving on South Dora, arrive at the stop sign at Observatory Avenue and watch a man tug at his belt buckle, drop his trousers…
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When I walked into the day room of the Bay Area board and care facility where my friend Sally lives, a pall of gloom had…
Accessibility of knowledge was crucial to the Enlightenment. That ethos was embodied in the celebrated Encyclopédie of Diderot and D’Alembert, the first of its seventeen…
I was in Nuremberg during the war crimes trials which followed WWII. My father, Brig. General Telford Taylor, was Chief Prosecutor during the second, American…
‘The Third Life of Grange Copeland.’ by Alice Walker, 1970 ‘Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker’ Edited By Valerie Boyd, 2022 ‘The…
How often does it happen that you write what you want on a piece of paper, tack it up on a notice board outside a…
The Blue Zones Project is based on the idea that by studying communities in the world that have a disproportionately high percentage of people living…
Norma Barnacle burned most of the letters she received in 1909 from her lover who signed his name, “Jim.” But she didn’t destroy all of…
I poured a glass of red wine and drank it as I got ready to go to the Community Park benefit party half a mile…