I know, I know. I am not the only mother to ever send her kid to school. But it's my first time sending mine to Kindergarten tomorrow so for me, it's a big deal. I…
Posts published in “Essays”
My birthday showed its face in June, and thanks to the recent auto repossession and my wife’s work schedule, it would be an auto-free, solitary celebration. I had a check from a beer newspaper of…
Michoacan is the mostly rural Mexican State from which the vast majority of Hispanic people in this Valley originally hail from. They tell me that it is similar to Anderson Valley in many ways. As…
“When we're gone, long gone, the only thing that will have mattered, Is the love that we shared, and the way that we cared, When we're gone, long gone...” — Jamie O'Hara & Kieran Kane, “When…
“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.” — John Kenneth Galbraith I know people who own nice houses and multiple cars and have sufficient wealth to eat and drink…
Bill Churchill’s time at sea and his multi-lingual background made him a perfect candidate to mingle with the Scientologists responsible for the management of the organization — the ultra elite group which became known as the Sea Organization.
Last week our Supervisors report was pretty long so we didn’t publish the full dialogue surrounding the motion at the end of the Board of Supervisors meeting to get the Final Environmental Impact Report for…