“One cannot write of ducks without mentioning water." — Ernest Thompson Seton Just when we thought the apex of human stupidity was a toss up…
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Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones, run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control…
Barack Obama, who pledged to restore ethical honor to the White House after the Bush years, is now burying himself under an active volcano of…
Your life story would not make a good book. So don't even try. — Fran Lebowitz The whole time I was growing up, I never…
Americans were offered closure Wednesday to one of among the multifarious strands of our national dementias. It took the drab guise of the “long-form” birth…
The royal razzmatazz over Will and Kate is temporarily over, which I hope gives the loving, handsome couple some breathing space before the Palace's formidably…
The way I saw the NFL draft coming down for the SF 49ers was drafting Blaine Gabbert out of Missouri at #7 spot in the…
My maternal Great-Grandparents, Arthur and Elsie Allen lived at the top of the hill on the southeast point of Pinoleville Rancheria for many decades. I…
Though it may at first seem a stretch to compare the struggle to save the historic Ukiah Post Office with the current labor dispute between National Football League owners and the NFL players’ union, similarities abound.
John Fante referred to you as a “sad flower in the sand.” I can’t be so poetic. I’m going to sum you up as the…
February 4, 2010 To: Patricia Beverly, Boonville California Dear Patricia Beverly: Welcome to the Blue Shield of California or Blue Shield of California Life &…