I want words that leave cinders, curls of smoke rising from black ash, words without paper, words that set desks afire, burn holes in doors, melt & shatter vaults, the eyes of buildings — molten…
Posts published in “Essays”
2025: The year that tried very diligently to take me out, silence me, and put me in my place. Perceived place, that is. There are some who desire my presence to be diminished, shamed, and…
Going back further than any of us can remember we have listened to political candidates telling us in loud, plain, repetitive language that their Number One priority is to bring good jobs to Ukiah and…
Seen from within its courtyard off busy Euston Road in London, the British Library is meant to look like a stately ocean liner pulling out to sea against the gables, turrets, and clock tower of…
I wasn’t sure I wanted to read Facing the Wind, knowing that it concerned the impact “imperfect” children can have on families into which they’re born, and more specifically, a man who slaughtered his disabled…
Virginia Woolf didn’t realize when she began to publish her own work more than 100-years ago that she would birth a cottage industry that would put all her writing – letters and diaries as well…
We’re in the middle of a brief stretch in a long year when we pause to count blessings, give thanks and acknowledge our good luck. We are finished with 2025, and look where we are:…
Anyone who has been in the Anderson Valley for any length of time is familiar with the Floodgate Store on Highway 128 in Philo. Over the years many businesses established there have had some prepared…
Do we get softer, more sentimental, less intelligent and less able to think clearly as we age? (Asking for a friend.) Actually I’m asking for, or about, my wife. She was once hard-headed, tough-minded and…