The curse that shaped the life of my grandmother, the lives of my mother and her brother, the life of my brother, and my own life, has finally been lifted. My brother and his wife lifted the curse, and their daughter Olivia, my charming niece, is the prime beneficiary of their heroic reversal of our family pattern, though I feel gifted by that reversal, too.
Posts published in April 2014
Almost a year ago an important document about a primary resource sustaining the Anderson Valley community was published with little local notice or comment. A…
Patches of snow cling to the muddy earth in the city’s picturesque nineteenth-century cemetery just to our north. Down in the gorge immediately to our…
Vaccination is one of history's most significant health advances. But California has had outbreaks of measles and pertussis in the past year. California also has…
My name is Brett McFarland. I was born to Mike and Gayle McFarland on October 28th, 1984 in Sioux Falls SD. My father was a high ranking officer in the United States Army and my mother worked nights as a pediatrics intensive care unit nurse.
COR Accreditation Worries;
Nana's Old Radio;
Sandra Rubin's Art;
Another Bubble?;
Puig’s Backstory;
Catching Rainwater;
California's Resource Secretary;
Defensible Space;
Tribes of Mendocino;
Police Reports
‘Composting Abbie: A Whale of a Story’ Book reception and signing On Friday, April 25, from 5 to 7 pm, Ann Maglinte, Jed Diamond and…
Child molestation, traditionally, has been a male practice. But lately in pioneering Mendocino County, home of the world's best marijuana, women have moved into the…
ANOTHER MENDO COUNTY FIRST, this line from an obituary in Tuesday's Ukiah Daily Journal: "David enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, listening to music and…