This weekend brings us the August 28 anniversary of the March on Washington back in 1963. It was when Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech from the Lincoln Memorial. At…
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Ordinarily, when dumb exchanges between public officials occur at public meetings, it's just dumb, and maybe somewhat revealing about the public officials involved. But at the August 17 meeting of the Mendocino County Board of…
It is not uncommon for those of us who have lived for over half a century to nostalgicize a Mom’s-apple-pie-in-the-sky America of the late Fifties and early Sixties that was kinder and gentler than it…
The new season opened last Friday evening with a return match against Drew High School of San Francisco who had visited Boonville this time last year when the home team Panthers managed to secure a…
The heat of last week seemed like a good reason to stay inside and sort through junk. Amongst the piles of stuff, most of which ended up in the dumpster, I found a treasure, a…
The drive from Ithaca, New York, at the southern end of Lake Cayuga to the old-and-new money town of Skaneateles at the northern end of Skaneateles Lakes takes a little less than an hour, but…
If I be not in a state of Grace, I pray God place me in it; If I be in it, I pray God keep me so. — Jean D’Arc Various accounts of the life…
I have been at a loss as to how to go from a post about death to justabout anything else. Suffice to say my dear friend is no longer using her hospital bed. She went…