Service Dogs are the Marine recruits of canines, fresh from drill camp, ready to take on the world. Service Dogs are single-minded, utterly devoted and unswerving in their duty and loyalty. Because of their rigorous…
Posts published in “Essays”
We’re moving from the East Bay to the Wine Country, one carload at a time. I promised Rosie I would bring all her possessions and not try to distinguish between the useless stuff and the treasures.…
How is a mushroom like an apple? Both can be considered the “fruit” of a tree, but while all the branches of an apple tree are visible, nearly all parts of the tree that mushrooms…
If I had wanted to be more famous than I already was, I wouldn't have moved from Sonoma County, where I lived for 40 years, and settled in San Francisco where I was mostly unknown.…
Life is an incredible ride that is at times bumpy, uneven, grueling very much like the streets of Mendo, hahaha! Sometimes there is even a giant deep dark sinkhole, that you cannot manuever away from…
Carolyn Kiernat, a principal in the Page & Turnbull firm in SF, asked me to submit this opinion piece on her behalf. Page & Turnbull, a firm renowned as a California leader in preserving and…
The surfers describe it best: They refer to it as “Answering the calling.” I got it from my dad whose family had been in the oyster business in Chesapeake Bay. Then there was Uncle Merrit…