The pacifiers were sold one to a package. I asked for a dozen—maybe $20 worth back then. “That's a lot,” the clerk said. “You don't know this baby,” I told her. Bill H. was one…
Posts published in August 2021
It's all about attention: we all want it, we all need it, so how we gonna get it? There is a finite amount and social media is sucking up most of it. Thousands of engineers…
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As an adult, the smartest thing my mentally ill and drug-addicted brother did was to move to the City and County of San Francisco. I was there the day it happened. I had just picked…
A resident of Novato, Richard Arnold Johnson died of kidney failure on July 22nd. Born in San Francisco on December 26th, 1939, Richard moved to Marin County when he was 6, and was thereafter a…
That’s the name of a song which reminds me of Ukiah. I needed to visit an appliance store on the north end of town. When we finished leaving a cooler for repair and turned south,…
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Last week Willits made the front page of the AVA and the obituary section of the New York Times, where the death of Sally Miller Gearhart was acknowledged. The farewell by Annabelle Williams described Gearhart as “a feminist, lesbian…