The Dreyfus Affair. Alfred Dreyfus was a French military officer convicted of treason in 1894 for allegedly passing military secrets to the German embassy in…
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I was walking down the long hall at my mother’s nursing home when I heard a bright cheery “Hi!” behind me. I turned around and…
There is no shortage of cool places to walk on the Mendocino Coast, so when you need a break from the heat in the Ukiah…
Siena is one of my favorite places that we visited on our trip this spring. I first learned about Siena as a child reading Marguerite…
Journalism, once a noble calling, is now an embarrassment; reporters have reputations worse than used car salesmen. I did newspaper work 35 years, then morphed…
The last time the name Anna Magdalena appeared in fiction it was attached not to a human character but to an assassin’s rifle. The perpetrators…
To call it “Frisco” is in and out itself a retro act of defiance. I don’t know anyone today who calls it Frisco, though Jack…
After a while it was like being in jail. After a while you quit thinking about having a beer because no matter what, the ice…
Very early in these Anderson Valley stories and reminiscences, I wrote a couple of articles on the subject “what is a hippie anyway?,” which described…