A back page blip announcing an unnatural death rattled around in my head for a long time before I exorcized it by giving it a prose toe tag. In the November 9, 2005 edition of…
Posts published in “Essays”
In an obit published on February 7, 2023, The New York Times called David Harris “an unlikely avatar of the antiwar movement.” That’s a ridiculous statement. Harris was as likely an avatar as anyone else…
The land was parched, its people too. The rivers that had raged through the Nation’s once-wild Southwestern desert shrank in their canyons. Vast man-made lakes shriveled to puddles behind massive dams, cathedrals of leisure, irrigation…
Parts of the day are as clear as the lines on my face. Other aspects are more obscure and faded, harder to access across the decades. And many years have passed since that day in…
The Editor rails against the Democratic National Committee and says, in despair, that there is no ‘left’ in the US. I know what he means and feel the same, but we’re both wrong. There’s always…
“When Giants Strode The Newsroom” by Tommy Wayne Kramer, brought back memories of the mid-Sixties when I, a twenty-two year old native of West Virginia who graduated from a small college there and decided, in…
Tree Frog Johnson, aka Luis Reynaldo, was a free range pedophile who established himself in the Boonville area in the early 70s, mostly staying with his sanctioned catamite on the property of a back-to-the-land family…
If there is one thing you can say about me without risking a libel suit, it’s that I have terrific manners. As Bill Saroyan wrote one time in the California Pelican, “He drives you crazy,…
This is the first in a series of articles about our local Unity Club in celebration of 100 continuous years of community service. The AV Unity Club was originally founded on December 8th, 1923. I…