We’re in the middle of a brief stretch in a long year when we pause to count blessings, give thanks and acknowledge our good luck. We are finished with 2025, and look where we are:…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
Do we get softer, more sentimental, less intelligent and less able to think clearly as we age? (Asking for a friend.) Actually I’m asking for, or about, my wife. She was once hard-headed, tough-minded and…
There are many things I don’t understand. Some are common, like the mystery of airplanes able to heave their loaded bulk high above the clouds, coming down a million miles away with (almost) never a…
Let’s hope Ukiah is sufficiently heads-up to send out a few photographers to snap glamour shots before the trees on School Street get harvested. When the call goes out to goose tourism numbers, the city…
The lingering fragrance (is that patchouli oil?!?) left behind by the ever dwindling number of baby boomers shuffling off the planet brings to mind the lofty goals and miserly achievements of Generation Us. Oh how…
It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to determine the point at which smallish, people-friendly towns evolve into big anonymous cities that grow to the point they become unlivable. I knew a guy who talked about…
The wheels are coming off the Good Ship Climate Change, and crop yields from Wind Farms are expected to be low once again this year. The sky continues not to fall, and predictions that Fort…
Question: Is media-generated fear of AI warranted? For 25 years the technowizards at Goggle haven’t been able to tame the Spelchuck monster from scrambling real words into wrong words and / or imaginary ones. It…
(NOTE: Upon learning we live part-time in North Carolina, friends have requested information about relocating. They receive responses like this.) Dear California Resident: Thank you on behalf of the North Carolina Visitors and Relocation Bureau!…