I was hanging around The Redwood Record in Garberville, California toward the end in 1995 and that place was a zoo: stoners, neurotics, alcoholics, and…
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The iconic Woodrose Cafe in Garberville, California started in 1977 and was our unofficial community center for forty years, a local institution which is still…
My mother got out of brain surgery and after a couple weeks in rehab she went home. One sister traveled five hundred miles north to…
Marijuana was the surprise ingredient in the economy of the backwoods in the mid-seventies and made a lot of twenty-something dirty hippies, slackers, and university-educated…
It's all about attention: we all want it, we all need it, so how we gonna get it? There is a finite amount and social…
I opened my door and saw a huddled form working on a project in my back yard. He was shaving a rock and had dragged…
See all the old-time hippies limping around town, getting old, and dying. Remember when we were lean, motivated, and vibrant, fresh-faced young people? What happened?…
After a sleepless night in pain, seriously not one moment of sleep, I packed a small overnight bag and hauled my sorry ass up to…
There is no market. If you didn't get $700 a pound last month you might not get $600 now for last year's off-brand flavors. Everyone…