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Posts published in “Essays”

Letter To A Hawaiian Bonefish

Dear O’io: You eluded us last year. Our esteemed guide, Captain Jeremy Inman of Oahu Flyfishing, caught the Covid, had to cancel. I wrote the story anyway because the occasion was my 80th birthday and…

Coming Into The Country

Mendocino County’s vastness has always been a force-and-violence kind of place where the cops are always at least thirty minutes away. You have to be prepared to defend yourself against violent people who’ve always operated,…

A Conversation With Artist Charles Albert

Charles Albert is not the last white man in San Francisco. Not by a long shot. 43% of the population identifies as white. 49% are female. Hordes of white men live and work in The…

The Shadow Box (Part 4)

There was no need to feel sorry for anyone on another famous show whose central theme was munificence. As long as people were strictly fictional characters, anything went. We could revel freely in their defeats,…

Belafonte Rules The Roost

Arrayed behind the twenty-one-year-old Harry Belafonte on the night of his unlikely debut as a singer in January of 1949 was a quartet of modern music greats: Al Haig on piano, Max Roach on drums,…

A Tale Of Two Windsors

One of the highlights of my mother’s life was when she saw Queen Elizabeth serenely glide by in her royal carriage, gloved hand awave, in the heart of London. I was standing right next to…

Yes! Water Aerobics at the Koret Rec Center

This is not a San Francisco gloom and doom story. There have been too many of them lately. San Franciscans feel sorry for themselves and wallow in despair. You might call this a health and…

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