We all have wonderful Christmas memories of past holidays with family and friends. These are the thoughts and sentiments of the best of our times and the happiest of our days. But not today. Beautiful…
Posts published in “Essays”
Bob Glover’s ancestors were true pioneers in the Euro-American settlement of Anderson Valley. And the fact motivated his personal ambitions and worldview since his youth. After the 1849 Gold Rush seven Swiss-German families left their…
Ralph Bostrom has been writing Letters to the Editor to the Anderson Valley Advertiser for years. Now in his 90s he’s an involuntary resident of a senior assisted living facility in Willits. For being an…
Before I had any idea of who she was, I had seen Joan Didion on the stairs of the four-story Manhattan walkup where we both lived. It was a creaky old building that had somehow…
The Emerald Cup was founded in 2004 from a fledgling few weed growers who gathered informally at Area 101 in Laytonville to share their grow tips and buds on the down low without public knowledge,…
That’s what I thought I was doing as his new movie, “Being the Ricardos,” streamed across the screen. Written and directed by the prolific Sork, underwritten by Amazon Studios, starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bardem,…
Providing electricity to millions of customers is a zero-sum game for both electric utilities and their customers. The generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity are therefore especially vulnerable to passionate single-issue groups eager to myopically…
As our second year of the pandemic draws to a close, a few updates on where things stand are in order. Omicron, the new variant, is quickly becoming the dominant strain of the virus around…