To think that in this America a man like Willie Nelson has the right, yes, the right, to choose who he supports in an election!…
Posts published in “Essays”
“Bring a large piece of uncooked meat with you when you come,” said the gruff voice on the phone. I thought it a rather odd…
Forget about the famed military-industrial complex of the Eisenhower years. It isn’t what it was. Yes, we have a military, but the industrial complex was…
Can the credits wreck a film? I’m not talking about choking on a popcorn kernel when you see that the best boy happens to be…
Somewhere on a shadowy shelf, amid the dusty books and pamphlets here at the ranch, rests a newspaper from eighty-seven years ago. On those faded…
Wildfires are old news. They’ve been old news for as long as humans have told stories about wildfires and tried to tame them, along with…
Sometimes at Burning Man you just really screw up. You say something to someone, or do something that is really inexcusable and you’re mortified. But…
Readers of the Anderson Valley Advertiser may remember my “Odd Tree Out” articles from earlier this year, chronicling my rediscovery – after 20 years –…
I take this opportunity to add a few words of remembrance concerning Janice Blue. It was only last night I sought information by internet server…
A sesh is a pop-up pot club. The oldest is said to be the Dream Sesh in Los Angeles, founded 2013. Sesh organizers have venues…