It's light out though the sun has yet to pop through the horizon. The nuthatches and chickadees greet me as they visit the two birdfeeders a few feet from one of the kitchen windows. There are a few cardinals feeding on the ground underneath the feeders, their speech a reproach: tch, tch, tch.
Posts published in September 2016
I was 13. It was 1958. We lived at what was then the outskirts of suburban Fresno. Down the street about half a mile was a large boysenberry farm. (Boysenberries are an early 20th Century…
Gene Wilder died in August. He was eighty-three. Thinking about him took me back to the first time I saw the movie Young Frankenstein on the big screen in San Francisco in 1974. And I remember feeling as I watched the film that I was witnessing one of those extremely rare creations, a work of art that would never grow old and never be successfully imitated—the result of the unique chemistry of six superlative actors and a brilliant director, none of them duplicable: Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Terry Garr, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, and Mel Brooks.
Ranochak Chat;
Mail Ballots;
Boonville Garden;
Hillary's Statement;
Rebecca Buzz;
Rex's Statement;
Police Reports;
Valley Fire;
Captain Questionable;
Blue Meadow;
Yesterday's Catch;
Green Revolution;
Sympathetic Magic;
Groundwater Meeting;
MCBG Sale;
Spiritual Travelers;
Managing Stuff;
Hyampom Homicides;
Civilization;
Salmon Watch;
DNC Maneuvers;
Dilemma;
Corporate Crime;
Wage Theft
A specter is haunting Mendocino: the specter of mental illness. No one knows that story better, both personally and professionally, than Thomas D. Allman who has served as the county sheriff ever since he was…
This slogan of the Ukiah Main Street Program makes one gasp and stretch one’s eyes. I had to look at the Main Street web page to see how pretty the place I live and work…
ADD TO THE LONG LIST of things I didn't know — Vince DiMaggio is buried in the Fort Bragg Cemetery. The famous ballplayer, just before he became famous as one of the three DiMaggio Brothers…