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Two Blocks From The Plaza

Immortality is a bummer for a genius. It lasts too long and it's very noisy. It's hard to rest in peace when millions praise you day and night, on full volume. Not shabby, Herr Mozart!…

Paradigms Shifting

“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.” — Henry David Thoreau I am writing the first draft of this essay with…

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is a time of feasting and visiting between families and friends who join in the offering of thanks for all those blessings bestowed since the last Thanksgiving. Many were in far-off lands and…

Sports Notes

Local boy Jacob Gowan is Stanford’s long-snapper on this year’s outstanding Cardinal football team. He is also a coach’s dream because he is a fine Division I athlete playing varsity football while attending Stanford on…

An Englishman Rides To Boonville

October, 2008 — We’re still riding south on Highway 101. We haven’t traveled far enough south to make any climatic difference, but the mist of the past two days has disappeared and it feels as…

A Thanksgiving Quiz

1. What was Squanto's real name? a. Tisquantum. b. Hiawathasquan. c. Squanto. d. Mabotesquantimentocontik.   2. Who was considered the leader of the Pilgrim settlers whose ship, originally bound for Jamestown, North Carolina, wound up…

Thanks to People Who Just Get it.

The night before last I made the cornbread stuffing. I was telling my boyfriend how there is nothing to it but an hour in, (I was working really, really slow) it was clear that his…

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