If there is one thing you can say about me without risking a libel suit, it’s that I have terrific manners. As Bill Saroyan wrote one time in the California Pelican, “He drives you crazy,…
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This is the first in a series of articles about our local Unity Club in celebration of 100 continuous years of community service. The AV Unity Club was originally founded on December 8th, 1923. I…
Or put in a parking lot… When tourists visit San Francisco they take photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower and those beautifully painted Victorian houses lined up along Alamo Square. In New York…
A gorgeous clear San Francisco day. Strolling downhill from a meeting up at the medical center on how to keep the “abortion pills” available to any woman who wants and needs them in these troubled…
A couple of weeks ago Wes and I drove another leg of our roadside visits to Highway 128’s historic and iconic buildings. This one was an easy jaunt from the Hamar Olsen ranch, formerly Edmeades…
A few years ago I moved with my family from the village of Mendocino, California to Coos County in Southern Oregon. We didn’t know a soul in this part of Oregon, though we have some…
Ukiah, California — Swift and true as Cupid’s arrow, Blue Zones evangelizer Dan Buettner sailed into town this morning to announce its official designation as a Pink Zone, a geographic region found to have extraordinarily…
After the break for the All-Star festivities, the NBA’s 82-game season gets interesting. This year, as usual, many teams were remade at the trade deadline. Each has about 25 games left. No team in the…
Records are made to be broken. Especially if the record is one you never want to hear again. It used to be great fun every so often to snap a vinyl LP that you loathed. …