This time of year always puts me in mind of World War II. A little known story of that “good war” concerns Wake Island. The entry of the United States into the war seemed a…
Posts published in December 2012
“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” — Bo Derek So…immediately following and ever since the re-election of President Obama, we have been told day and night by the…
My mother, like her four older sisters in Tennessee (one of whom, the 2nd grade teacher in Carthage, claimed as one of her most well-known students former vice-president Al Gore, Jr.), was, in the words…
AT FIRST LOOK, the great storm didn't live up to its pre-rains hype. But by Monday, especially inland, considerable damage and even controversy about the reason for that damage, was being assessed. There was some…
We had a two-day delay in our flight from Atlanta to Johannesberg. Several months prior to leaving SFO, I was instructed by a person at Delta to call a month before leaving to book the…
JOHN WILLIAMS of Greenwood Road has died at age 68. He was well-known in this area, and had lived here for more than thirty years. The former husband of Nadya Williams, John was born in…
TONIGHT'S festival of lights at the Botanical Gardens has been canceled because of rain. It will be re-scheduled. THE PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT of the Mendocino Redwood Company Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), Natural Community Conservation Plan…