On my way to the local junior college, where I attended classes for one semester while trying to figure out where better to go, I'd…
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When one comes to prison—and in saying I in no wise mean to suggest that you, the reader, ever would, or should, travel down that…
Big Valley, California – The medical marijuana experiments have been going well here for Ralph Weinstein. His research is proving high grade weed and Russian…
An interesting week. A few things happened. One: a friend shared a tidbit about Mendocino public school education. Some years ago, his stepson was smoking…
Where to eat? What to eat? And when to eat? Questions about food and eating proliferate endlessly. Each day brings new challenges, new desires and…
When far from home in foreign cities, slowed by saddle sores or jet leg, menaced by security pat-downs or highwaymen’s pistols, the traveler is often beset by two contending impulses: avoid your own expatriate countrymen and women like the plague or seek them out as glue for your own identity fragmenting under the strains of the journey.
An email just arrived in my inbox recently titled "The Most Controversial Film in the Country — VAXXED — Set to Open in The San…
I recently finished writing something that caused me, after doffing my writer's cap and donning the chapeau d'critique, to say: Dude, this is boring. Boring?…
I completed my novel Inside Moves in 1975, the year the war in Vietnam ended. I had a medical deferment that saved me from going to that…
Must the virtuoso but virtuous? In The Republic Plato answered the question with an emphatic, uptight: yes. Most moderns by contrast are blithely willing to…
Obamacare? I know nothing about it, but it seems those who hate it are the same ones who hate Obama for the usual reason. I've…