I live where the Navarro River meets the ocean, where the tides ebb and flow, animals come and go, and I am a part of…
Posts tagged as “essays”
Hello, Homer! How ya been, buddy? Doin’ well, I hope. Now, I know that Simpson’s caricature has given you a bum rap, but I’m of…
The air still cuts and the wind is ringing every tree leaf in The Valley, but before you know it, we will all be back…
Raving about Joe: What if grandad showed up at a rave? You’d probably be smart to dip out of the nearest exit and find your…
The shoe-boxes we carried on our laps on the flight to Maui contained our parakeets, a little anxious and aflutter about their surroundings and the…
Media interest in the dog-mauling case was intense, salacious, and international. The Press Democrat accurately described it as “San Francisco's O.J. Case,” and many of…
During all the long years of my fulltime corporate employment I had a skewed view of the world. Not because of boardroom policies or existential…
In pre-Covid times a hungry American was on a tour of a monastery. A familiar smell from the kitchen drew him away from the rest…
Well, it's been a longer journey than I anticipated through my recollections and reminiscences warehouse 49 years of residence in Navarro has provided me. My…
Berkeley, CA, August 10, 2020 – Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” is an angry book. If you’re not angry after reading it,…
My dad's motto was, "If you're going to do something, do it right." He had a thousand inspirational clichés, but that was the one that…