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Posts published in “Essays”

Looking Back

I wanted to finish my rant on baseball and several other things I mentioned earlier. I was always interested in the Editor’s baseball career, mentioned many times, as well as Candlestick Park, etc. I left…

Pitt-Stop Symphony (HZ F1)

Pain is gain, all the way up towards 20,000 RPM, music to the ears, the urgent advice of audiologist be damned. Even in the marginally quieter age of hybrid Formula 1 cars that dawned against…

Jim Eddie Remembered As A Man Of Integrity

A heated environmental controversy over protecting Spotted Owl habitat in dwindling old growth forests was raging on the North Coast when the late Mendocino County Supervisor Jim Eddie suggested a sleep over in a family…

Department Q: Noir Thriller From Netflix

I’ve never watched a noir thriller on Netflix that hasn’t disappointed me in some way or another. Netflix mass produces noir thrillers, and crime dramas like Vera with Brenda Blethyn the way Warner Brothers once…

Mendo Monographs

If Mendocino County history fascinates you, there is a great source of entertaining information in the 60 year old publications of the Mendocino County Historical Society. Readers can find them in libraries, in the archives…

Trump, Musk Feud Revealed

A One Act Play Setting: Oval Office, White House Cast: ELON MUSK, Tycoon DONALD J. TRUMP, President ELON MUSK: Alright it’s been great Bro, but I gotta get rollin’ or the board will either fire…

Summer Lovin’ With The Bachs

Summer is the time of family reunions. The big Bach family and had big family reunions, full of fun and music. So reported Johan Sebastian Bach’s first biographer, Johann Nickolaus Forkel, writing a half century…

On Indian Land

In 1992, the family group that I had been living with in the ridges of Cazadero, CA. Which consisted of the woman who was my partner, her friend who was the single mother of my…

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