It was one of my first visits to Northern California. Still in high school, I had wandered up thru Marin, Mendocino and Humboldt counties; I'd seen redwoods and the amazing rugged coast for the first…
Posts published in “Essays”
Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City, by Anthony Flint. Random House, New York, New York 2009. This fast-moving and gripping story, summed up in…
Hullo Freda, Thank you for your opinion piece in the "AVA" about the lack of responsible reporting by the "Fort Bragg Advocate News" especially in coverage of Aaron Vargas. I'm sure I don't have to…
Mendocino County Supervisor Carre Brown, in a long letter to the Ukiah Daily Journal this Sunday, tries to explain why she voted for John McCowen's crazy new pot cultivation ordinance (County Code 9.31) by saying…
Bruce Anderson on the departure of Johanna Schultz from KZYX, from this week's Off the Record...
There’s America the mythical, with the White House Easter Egg Roll scheduled last Monday and activities, in the words of the White House press release, designed to “encourage children to lead healthy and active lives…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Aaagghh! Having looked forward all week to buying some goodies at the Bake Sale held last Saturday morning at Lemons Philo Market,…
It is the topic of somber conferences and alarming stories on public radio: the speed of internet service in our rural areas is falling way behind the rest of the world. Internet speed in the…
I have read a great deal about dreams and dreaming, and whether you believe dreams are communications from the astral plane or meaningless imagery resulting from cerebral outgassing, they can certainly remind us of people…