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…
Posts published in “Essays”
In the 19th century, the big international drug dealers were the English and the French imperialists who managed, with arms, to hook the Chinese on opium and force them to legalize it. I can understand…
It was common years ago to report to the local newspaper if you had managed to grow the “biggest” of anything. From historian Nannie Escola’s newspaper clippings, we found attention directed to the “biggest” things…
A conductor waves his arms in front of other musicians. The audience usually sees the maestro (less often maestra, still) from the back. Hidden from the concertgoers during the performance, the conductor’s face can convey…
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…
A long, long time ago — 70 years on — life granted a great gift to a young boy. I was that boy — little Charlie Dunbar — and that gift was living for a time in the small town of Chapman, Kansas…
Cruising down the Willits end of the Willits Grade one Tuesday evening back when the AVA was a newspaper printed on newsprint at about 6:30pm , traveling in the slow lane at a leisurely, lawful…
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…