After Roller Derby in Eureka, after lots of sushi and sake in Arcata, after she drove home to Trinidad at 11pm I walked around the…
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The lucky accident of our place and time has spared us the unspeakable domestic horror of watching our families and friends displaced from their homes…
On a summer day in June it was hot and dry almost everywhere in California. Nearly eight thousand miles away, it was hot and rainy…
Of all the mystifying shit that youth is getting up to these days — body-madding, skinny jeans, gender-hopping, emoji poetry, and molecular cuisine being just…
I really wasn't sure I wanted to grow this year, the stress of selling it was overwhelming, the price always going down, and all the…
In your life you must go to Yellowstone. If you can't or haven't, come on, come along. I was a tour bus driver and a…
Several years ago we rented a farm house to a couple new to the area. Ironically the man’s father-in-law had just purchased our property in…
Ahh, those Anderson Valley mornings. At the Mosswood before things heated up it was calm and happy, the smiling lovely staff providing truly wonderful coffee,…
When I think of the Democratic Party these days, the image instantly comes to mind of little Linda Blair playing the demon-possessed child in the…
Monday morning I debated making a trip over the hill to the Ukiah valley where our watermelons and sweetcorn might be needing water. At the…
Would you darken your complexion and walk in the shoes of a black man in America today? Probably not, especially with police shootings of unarmed…