One evening while walking our dogs in Riverside Park several years ago, my friend and I heard panicked meowing at the entrance. Following the sound, I found a kitten stuck up a large oak tree.…
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As a member of the Baby Boom generation, I am increasingly aware of how younger generations – Generation X (born 1964-1980), Millennials (born 1981-2000) and Generation Z (born 2001-2020) - perceive older folks. Of course,…
Movie stars are singing again. From across a century of sound cinema there have been many leading women and men who have been winning vocalists, from the first talkie generation of James Cagney and Claudette…
I told my wife we’d have to leave early in the morning to catch our flight back to North Carolina, and she shot back a cold, level look. “How early,” she said. It wasn’t a…
Therapy, the multi-tentacled beast that spread in locust-like herds across the nation for 50 years ruining lives, splitting families, teaching nonsense and getting paid to do it, appears in remission. Therapists were the driving wheel…
Almost all novels, from Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to One Hundred Years of Solitude and today’s mass market best sellers, are political whether the author intends them to be political…
As a historian researching the history of mineral and hot springs locally I became enthralled and entertained browsing through “Durham’s Place Names of California’s North Coast” covering Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake and Trinity counties.…