The excitement of Christmas in our post-war family of six was more than a little girl could stand. There were no extravagant gifts. My plasterer dad only worked when the sun shined and that didn’t…
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Ed Denson was still a relative newcomer to southern Humboldt when he arrived in the 1980s. He had spent most of his adult life in the Bay Area. During the sixties he managed the bands…
The goal of baroque composers was to trigger the emotions. Yet many moderns enjoy this music because they hear it is unthreatening. To them, the sounds of cantatas, concertos, and suites are merely pleasing. There…
My wife was kinda short and pudgy, with an egg-shaped face. She was cute as could be, gorgeous to me, but an uncommon combination of height, weight, and build. If she was walking toward me,…
It is an amazing, humbling thing to be alive in our time and in our place. It is almost beyond comprehension. It borders on magical. I speak of many things: the awesome miracle of your…
Now that the brief visit of the Dynamo football team has come to an end, it is possible to say publicly what many thinking people were saying privately before the Dynamos ever arrived. That is,…
CNN News Team: Keep up the good work, go Team! Outside of a couple of troublemakers (unfortunately too popular to fire outright), you have each faithfully followed CNN’s updated guidelines for reporting on the Israel…