No, no. It's not what you may think. This is a story told by my father about an experience he had while he was in…
Posts published in “Essays”
The news took less time to filter through the crowd of over 500 than the spark from a spliff filled with Bell Springs Blue Dream…
My sister Allison Krause was one of four students killed in the 1970 Kent State shootings. You may have heard about that day in American…
Stone Mountain just east of Atlanta, Georgia is an enormous granite dome, five miles around at the base, circled by sheer gray cliffs which rise…
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with…
It’s a warm and gray morning. A blanket of clouds covers the Azores, casting a blue-gray shadow across the Atlantic. Some clouds creep slowly across…
In a letter from San Quentin, Aaron Vargas talks prison & politics.
We waited 13 minutes for the 33 line at Castro and Market Monday afternoon. On the opposite corner, a naked man with a large penis…
Hi all. I’m taking a different tack this month and following up on something requested: In last week’s edition of the Anderson Valley Advertiser a…
Arthur C. Clarke and director Peter Hyams proved less than prophetic in the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact, but they gave the audiences…
In her guest opinion in the Eureka Times-Standard on June 29, Former Democratic Assemblywoman Virginia Strom-Martin claimed that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s fast-track Marine Life Protection…