I remember standing over the hospital bed in my father’s bedroom, an hour before he died. He couldn’t talk anymore and thrashed from side to side in great agitation, his eyes rolling wildly in his…
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I remember when the spitball was legal and when Three Finger Mordecai Brown had five fingers and when the 1929 Seals had a club that could have beaten most of the majors and when the…
Social media from China suggests a significant surge in COVID cases following the government’s abrupt halt of its Zero-COVID policy. Chinese doctors and nurses, along with desperate families of COVID patients, are posting stories of…
It's 1972. I'm seventeen smoking a joint on an old tractor at a farmhouse we're renting for $45 a month in Solsberry, Indiana outside Bloomington. Ice cream cones are five cents in the store down…
The first musical technology I remember operating, from the age of five, was an Estey upright piano. The second was a stereo, the make of which I’ve forgotten, if I ever knew it. My father…
Son Lucas, a fraction of your age and thus able to control the internet the way you control your shower temperature, recently spent a minute showing me a new thingie on my laptop. It’s ChatGPT…
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat editorial Dec.18 expressed dismay about the state of the Cannabis industry in California. The PD exonerated the politicians and blamed the proponents and funders of Proposition 64 — the “Adult…