While the greatest musical dynasties ruled over vast empires of the imagination, their geographic domains were small. The Couperins held the organist post at the church of St. Gervais in Paris for nearly two hundred…
Posts published in “Essays”
In 1863 two far-sighted men, A.W. McPherson and Henry Wetherby, purchased 6,000 acres of timberland lying along the banks of the Eel River in Humboldt County from the state of California. In 1868 a company…
To the east of the Phoenix megalopolis runs the Old Apache Trail, which starts out harmlessly enough as Highway 87. As you wind your way through ravines and red cliffs, the road gets narrower a…
When you see me talking to myself, it doesn’t mean I am crazy, it means you are blind and have no idea about the multitude of ghosts following me either on foot or weightless bicycles…
This time of year always puts me in mind of World War II. A little known story of that “good war” concerns Wake Island. The entry of the United States into the war seemed a…
“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” — Bo Derek So…immediately following and ever since the re-election of President Obama, we have been told day and night by the…
We had a two-day delay in our flight from Atlanta to Johannesberg. Several months prior to leaving SFO, I was instructed by a person at Delta to call a month before leaving to book the…