It’s 5:30p.m at the onramp to evening. A muddy, ice-rimmed park-n-ride lot adjacent to the Red Carpet Inn just off the Thruway near Geneva—New York…
Posts published in “Essays”
The generation that has been squatting atop American society for the past half-century will soon enough be gone, thank God. The Love Generation is dying…
I do not actually remember when I first met Mike. It seems like I have always known him and Sharon; they have been fixtures in…
California's Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act — called "mac cursor" — was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor in 2016. The…
The human brain is an amazing organ, and capable of some genuinely astonishing things. I'm not even talking about Einstein-y super-genius level insight, which is…
Artists are the “antennae” of the human race, someone once said. They’re the mind readers and the prophets who scope out the future. And sometimes…
Part two of a two-part series taking a look at our area Granges and their future. In El Dorado County and across the state, a fight…
Television crime shows are often built around unsolved murders. Detectives re-visit old case files and talk to witnesses and likely perps again and again until…
Not since last year, amidst the lightless heat of the presidential election, has your asbestos-suited Musical Patriot launched a sonic raid of such peril and…
Once in a while it may do us good to look back at a catastrophe or crisis from the perspective of a few days of…
With bee populations in decline worldwide and the so-called civilized world in no hurry to eliminate the known causes of these precipitous declines, more and more flowers are going unvisited by those faithful little pollinators.