I am a busy man. Busy, busy, busy. Beaver, bee, one-armed paperhanger: choose your preferred symbolic figure for a chap in a condition of constant…
Posts published in “Essays”
Professor Don Foster's 1999 book "Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous" solves what the editor of "The Letters of Wanda Tinasky" grandly called "The…
A brief history of Building and Planning Codes in Mendocino County, as presented to the Coastal Mendocino Association of Realtors on May 26, 2017
The room — Our trip, what I’m calling our European Adventure, began on the 30th of May with our flight to Paris. This segment of…
The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival (SNWMF) relocated to Boonville in 2006, after operating in the Sierra foothills since 1994, making this the 12th year here. After some challenges with an extreme heatwave and then extreme fires in the first couple years, it's been pretty much smooth sailing since, albeit with some adjustments to volume and such. Any notable changes planned for this year?
I went to my first SF Giants baseball game live at ATT Park last week and dug it. Knowing I'm into the game of baseball,…
We first encountered Point Arena School Counselor Holly Rawlins back in 2010 when she was a called as a witness at the civil trial when…
Society, or at least the arm of it concerned with the making of rules and the forced restraint of natural human behavior, is very good…
Fort Bragg City Manager Linda Ruffing’s prepackaged ready to believe biweekly spin sheet just arrived in my email box. Linda writes her “City Notes” to…
It’s a given among local law enforcement that at the time of his death, Mendo DA Norm Vroman, the accidental anarchist, was being investigated by…
The story out of Fresno began, "The bee industry is buzzing over the arrest of a man accused of stealing thousands of hives worth nearly…