My birthday showed its face in June, and thanks to the recent auto repossession and my wife’s work schedule, it would be an auto-free, solitary…
Posts published in “Essays”
Michoacan is the mostly rural Mexican State from which the vast majority of Hispanic people in this Valley originally hail from. They tell me that…
“When we're gone, long gone, the only thing that will have mattered, Is the love that we shared, and the way that we cared, When…
“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.” — John Kenneth Galbraith I know people who own nice houses and…
Bill Churchill’s time at sea and his multi-lingual background made him a perfect candidate to mingle with the Scientologists responsible for the management of the organization — the ultra elite group which became known as the Sea Organization.
Last week our Supervisors report was pretty long so we didn’t publish the full dialogue surrounding the motion at the end of the Board of…
Is addiction a “disease?” Depends on who you ask, it seems, but if you ask those with the most experience and training — including doctors and scientists in the field — the answer is yes.
The Letter to the Editor could have been to Any Newspaper in Anytown, USA: “These illegal immigrants come here, take our jobs, get free health…
That debt and sin are synonymous in Christian thought and liturgy might help explain the righteousness of Tea Party discourse, as well as the genuflections…
“The Possible’s slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.” — Emily Dickinson While following a seemingly insignificant line of thought I will suddenly find…
One of the drawbacks of dividing my time between Spy Rock and the city was the rigmarole I had to go through every time I…