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…
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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…
There's a group of about six houses down the hill and everyone drives by my house, mostly neighborly slow, but a couple of them barrel by multiple times a day on their way to town.…
My earlier report on the childhood of Donald Dukes, Bob Glover’s step-son, described his migration from a Kentucky coal camp to industrial Hammond, Indiana, to Bob’s ancestral Guntly Ranch all by the age of ten.…