On June 10, 1881, a fifty-two year old count draped himself in the garb of a peasant and set off down a dust covered, rutted…
Posts published by “Malcolm Macdonald”
Transparency has become a buzzword to serve the purposes of politicians or those who oppose them. In Fort Bragg, California, it is one of the…
Timber fallers can be heard less than a mile north and slightly west of here. I walked through their handiwork last evening, a far neater…
Buzzards swoop on the wind drafts in the draw that extends from below my house to the bottom lands next to the remains of Uncle…
It was an early spring day and I sat in my dentist's waiting room. The only magazine that looked even half interesting proved to be…
Anyone who has ever seen “The Pickle Story” episode of The Andy Griffith Show (first aired a week before Christmas, 1961) knows that there are…
On a fog drenched Monday night, in a nearly five hour meeting, the Fort Bragg City Council approved a forgivable loan agreement with the Mendocino…
Three gulches west from the ranch that I live on, Slaughterhouse Gulch cuts the hillside north of the Albion River. Even in this fourth year…
A column about Cal Fire's State Responsibility Area (SRA) fees seems to be an annual ritual, but this year there are new twists and turns…
The Fort Bragg City Council held a follow-up to their February 21, 2015 goal setting retreat on the last Monday afternoon in March. In February…
Recently I was asked, “When ya gonna write somethin' positive?” Answer: When I get sick and tired of watching reruns of the black and white…