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Posts published in “Essays”

Two Nobel Prize Winners

(I don't know where the AVA gets all those great quotes, but a couple in here made me think of them, though perhaps you've seen…

Farm To Farm

If the Giants had played host to the final two games of the playoffs, the National League Pennant series might still hang in the balance…

Panther Soccer 2010

Last Monday afternoon (Oct 18th), the team traveled to face the Wolverines of Willits for the final non-league game of the season in what would…

Adventures In Addis Ababa

After more than a month, I'm finding Ethiopia to be more and more complicated and vastly more difficult to understand and furthermore explain, but I…

Tangled Election Web

Berkeley is probably not the best place to be intro­duced to politics, especially after a childhood spent wearing a little “I Like Ike” pin. In…

Disappointment

Whilst discussing my hopes and expectations for the San Francisco Giants with Mark Scaramella, he sug­gested I try my hand at writing about disappointment. I…

The Giants, A Breathless Look Back

The Giants have fixated my feeble attentions to the point of mesmerization. As a kid, I saw lots of Seal's ball games at the old…

Three Cheers For The French Strikers!

The strikes and demonstrations that have brought France to a near-halt are provoking the usual patronizing commentaries in the United States and United Kingdom. Those…

Giants, the Series & Duh, the Election

Count me among the folks who are seriously unmoved by next week’s looming election. Not even the marijuana legalization measure or the possible return to…

Farm to Farm

On Saturday morning the boys made a beeline for the Boonville Farmers' Market once they'd stuffed their guts on blueberry pancakes at the General Store.…

Report From Haiti

I have been back in Haiti for a little over a month now. Things have changed some here in Leogane in the time I was…

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