Alice Walker, who you recently read about in the pages of the AVA, is in trouble again, once again for something that she wrote. The…
Posts published by “Jonah Raskin”
In France, and all around the globe, eyes are focused on the French presidential election, though not many citizens seem to be hot and bothered…
Have you ever felt like a fraud? Maybe you have at some juncture in your own life. Right now I feel like an imposter. I…
To understand San Bruno Mountain today it helps to know some of its history. After all, it’s probably the last frontier in the San Francisco…
Born in St. Louis near the Mississippi River, the author, teacher and ecologist, Jane Wolff, lives and works in Ontario, Canada. “Up stream” is how…
At San Francisco’s Maison Nico—an épicerie (a grocery) and a café—where I’ve been shopping, eating and sipping wine and coffee at least once a week…
I feel doubly or triply connected to the war in the Ukraine because my grandparents on my mother’s side of the family came from the…
I’m a walker, not a hiker, though my preference for walking over hiking hasn’t prevented me from admiring Sam Tidwell, who went on a long…
He loved the sounds and the heft of words, though the first words he heard were not English words. Mais non. They were joual, the…
“The power of the dog is all those urges, all those deep, uncontrollable urges that can come and destroy us.” – Jane Campion, director, screenwriter…
American Indians are rebounding in California and all across the U.S.A., and they’re popularizing words like “indigeneity,” which is defined as originating in a specific…