In Michael Ondaatje's wonderful novel “Divisadero” — a most memorable part of which is set in Sonoma County — the jazz of Thelonious Monk is…
Posts published in December 2009
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s go straight to the topics of conversation under discussion at The…
Gloria and I sat down to talk at The Senior Center a couple of weeks ago and, like many of her generation, she was very…
Fact: Every 100 years on the tenth year of the century, Mexico explodes in extravagant social upheaval. In 1810, this distant neighbor nation declared its…
Forget about kicking back and enjoying an American beer; a massive wave of consolidation is transforming the industry. According to a recent report by the…
Thanksgiving Day started out routinely. The cows went through the milking procedure without balking. It was only when I was feeding hay after the milking…
Some impulse purchases are more gratifying than others. This Thanksgiving was to be a small get-together; for our expansive family, an unusually restrained event. As…
The economic viability of Ukiah’s historic downtown is going to be shaped not by warring development factions but by a pending state decision on where…
It's one of the career changes some of Mendo's unemployed fishermen are pondering these days, according to a story about California's non-existent commercial salmon industry--and what local fishermen are up to--in the LA Times today.