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Country Living: What Do You Do?

When you move to the country the first question-visiting city friends ask is “What do you do?” To their uninitiated eyes your new home has trees, small animals, sky with the sun in the morning…

A Random Act Of Kindness

Back in the1980s came a bumpersticker that advised us to “Practice Random Acts of Kindness.” It was early virtue signaling, meant less to instruct others in proper behavior, more to cast the car’s driver in…

The Ultimate California Eco-Manifesto

It has now been just over twenty years since a historically reclusive Marin County coastal burg — so reclusive that its name has been deleted here wherever possible, per local and long-futile custom - adopted…

Carolina Codeine Fiends

Had a cough that lasted so long I was going to name it (“Sputum” has a nice ring, plus it’s an olde family name) but first went to the doctor. I picked the right one…

Walter Anderson’s Settlement Of Anderson Valley [1968]

Soon after Henry Beeson was mustered out of the armed forces in the months following the end of the Bear Flag Rebellion in the early 1850s, Watt (Walter) Anderson and his family had settled on…

Baseball, A Memory In One Breath

The Giants of 2010 fixated my feeble attentions to the point of mesmerization. As a kid, I saw lots of ball games at the old Seal's Stadium at 16th and Potrero. I remember the time…

Bowl Or Bust: Cicero, Trumpius, And Lamar

It is the year LIX, BCE. The Roman LIX translates into 59 in Arabic, soon to proclaimed “American Numerals” by Trumpius Maximus, newly returned to the Consulship. BCE stands for Big, Crazy Entertainment, and it…

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