Dreamers, schemers, dealers and profiteers go to Humboldt County to grow, sell and transport marijuana. They’ve gone there to smoke it, steal it, write and…
Posts published in May 2015
Anyone who has ever seen “The Pickle Story” episode of The Andy Griffith Show (first aired a week before Christmas, 1961) knows that there are…
Thank you for attending the 45th commemoration of the Kent State Massacre and honoring, remembering this important day. My sister Allison Beth Krause was one…
Decades ago, I’d show up weekly to clean the Philadelphia apartment of a California transplant. Daughter of a Hollywood executive, Jacqueline confessed she had to…
Best Thing I Heard All Week: James McMurtry, Complicated Game. Hear them crabbers cuss the weather And they cuss the government too Nowadays crabbin' and…
Pinot Surprise;
Costco Logic;
Slug Gardening;
Addressing Big Wine;
Recall Turner;
Sanford Farewell;
Runaround Sue;
Jackpot Stop;
Yesterday's Catch;
Double Standard;
Beth Remembers;
!@#$^&* Radio;
Havana Bar;
Renoir;
Almond Acreage;
Inuit Art;
Stehr Plans;
Summer Reading;
Speak Dolphin
The foreign has long been my stomping ground, my sanctuary, as one who grew up a foreigner wherever I happened to be. Born to Indian…
The Weather Underground wasn’t as crazy as it seemed, though at the time it seemed anything but sane. On March 6, 1970, three members of…
This year, with five yearling apples trees and five apple trees we revived from near death when we bought this place three years ago, the biggest challenge to our trees is ants and the aphids those ants raise on the clover, so to speak, of the tender apple leaves just now emerging along with the onset of blossoms.