After ninety minutes of winding, narrow, and tedious backcountry roads without an English-speaking voice on the car radio, we endured a period of silence, the kind perhaps that is inevitable when traveling in close quarters…
Posts published in “Essays”
Why do you live in Anderson Valley? How did you even find Anderson Valley? Unless you were born here or brought here by your parents you have a story about how you ended up here.…
Loving parts of my past I jumped at the opportunity to return to the San Diego area for my 56th high school reunion in July. But not wanting to possibly endanger my health mixing with…
All happy families are alike, and they live somewhere I’ve never been. All weird families are screwed up in different ways, and please allow me to count them. I just returned from a seven-day family…
I don’t recollect when or how Sammy “Prather Ranch” Prather and I first met. But I do know it wasn’t long after I arrived in Anderson Valley in 1971. Perhaps it was at the Floodgate…
I’ve never heard anyone say they’d been burned by Alan Sorrentino — quite a tribute in an industry full of backstabbers. He runs an Oakland-based delivery service called C.R.A.F.T. About two-thirds of the cannabis C.R.A.F.T. sells…
Remember in the not-so-long-ago past when America’s car makers very publicly cried foul over how electric cars would collectively toss them on the trash heap of history, to decompose alongside their horse-drawn buggy-maker predecessors? Today…
Raised in Cleveland, Ohio means I grew up on speaking terms with numerous and varied weather conditions, including humidity. Then I moved to California and learned a different weather language and forgot all about humidity…