1963. August 1st, San Francisco North Beach. I met up with a guy named Sky King. He wore all black and a long cape with…
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It all started out because I'm married to a man who likes long train trips. Really long train trips. In the past five years we've traveled 17,000…
Let's not mince words. Were Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alive today, he would be at risk for being imprisoned indefinitely, without charges or access…
One thing people never seem to get tired of is wondering what evil forces are at work behind the scenes that shape the reporting of…
Lately I've received several end-of-the-year form letters wherein the sender(s) painstakingly detail their lives over the past year. It's the kind of missive only mothers…
The early afternoon summer sun reflected off the lake onto my ceiling and danced on my desk. The front door to my little bachelor cottage…
I'm an atheist. There, I've said it. You want to make something of it? I know a guy who's a bit of a bible-thumper. He's…
One of the most heated debates in the recall election centers on whether or not illegal immigrants should have California driver's licenses, with detractors of…
Alexander Cockburn and Bruce Anderson, legitimate recipients of mailings from the American Association of Retired People, hiked the arduously magnificent Sinkyone Wilderness Trail last weekend…
A one sentence blurb in California Travelers' Trivia attracted my attention: "The small hamlet (Rough and Ready) seceded from the Union in 1850 and did…
Douglas Scott Hirscher, the man involved in the deadly four-car accident on Highway 128 near Yorkville on December 1, 2002, has pled no contest to…