This Week: Full Court Press, continued; Low Gap, distilled; Squaw Rock, renamed; and much more
Posts published in August 2011
LUIS ARMANDO PACHECO was 23 when he died in last Wednesday’s collision with a Coast-bound gasoline tanker on 128 near the Mendo-Sonoma County line. $1300…
Nothing like having your car repossessed while your mother’s in town for a visit. On a bright sunny morning in June, my life soon became…
Sometimes I get the feeling I say all the same things in these blog posts. Other times, I go back and read them and realize,…
It's one of the toughest yet most vital jobs of all — caring for the millions of elderly Americans who, though infirm, remain in their…
I met Antoinette at her beautiful home on Anderson Valley Way on the outskirts of Boonville. After a brief tour of the house and her…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And what better way to do that than to sing the praises…
“Oh, the women, the women!” cried the old soldier. “I know them by their romantic imagination. Everything that savors of mystery charms them.” — Alexandre…
Three decades ago, medical and public health students at UCLA were sometimes taken on a tour of an old hospital ward, previously dedicated to women suffering the aftereffects of illegal abortions.