International news sources (because American media is mum on the subject) report that a powerful cyclone just blew through the out-of-control and inconceivably deadly Fukushima nuclear power plants, with more such storms on the way.
Posts published by “Todd Walton”
The first few times I finished writing a novel (each book representing two or three years work), I was gripped by the same terrible fear that I might die before I could make copies of the books and send them out into the world.
“Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Morning: A beautiful day in Mendocino, the rhododendrons madly blooming, the headlands a riot of wild roses and wild irises and wild…
Jon Miller, my favorite bard of baseball, recently used the words egregious, preposterous, cerulean, prodigious, and greensward whilst painting verbal pictures of our San Francisco Giants sweeping the Rockies and the Snakes
“One cannot write of ducks without mentioning water." — Ernest Thompson Seton Just when we thought the apex of human stupidity was a toss up between building nuclear power plants and waging wars for gasoline,…
Though it may at first seem a stretch to compare the struggle to save the historic Ukiah Post Office with the current labor dispute between National Football League owners and the NFL players’ union, similarities abound.
“How’s your back?” asks Marvin, handing me cash for pruning his fruit trees. “Pretty good,” I say, lifting my ladder into the back of my pickup. “Mine’s all fucked up,” he murmurs, looking away. “Can’t…