Regular readers of my fetching prose will remember three earlier installments of this piece that dealt with my passion for motorcycle touring, and the tear-jerking…
Posts tagged as “essays”
Greta Thunberg’s four-minute jeremiad at the United Nations this past Monday was delivered not standing behind a pulpit or kneeling on rocky ground. With perfect…
When I heard that PG&E was going to turn off power in my part of the world my first response was denial. I thought that…
I lived in the Haight because it was a cheap, lower middle-class neighborhood, and a step above the Tenderloin. In 1963 it was a working-class…
A young attorney, who had hung his shingle in Mendocino's county seat, proved to be the first witness in the history of the courts of…
I traded some property many years ago and bought an older country home in Healdsburg just out of town. I rented this house to a…
Act One: When I was a freshman in high school Julie Pardini would drive Mr. Biggins and me 26.2 miles every morning from Boonville over…
The body politic has human parts: head, limbs, heart. That body has an abundance of these in the case of the royal giant that brandishes…
Once a week I treat myself to breakfast at a diner. It used to be breakfast with my wife, but she died, damn it, so…
It was one of those extraordinary teenage friendships formed in elementary school. Two buds joined at the hip. Best friends always and forever. Neighbors who…
If he's still alive, Lew Welch would have celebrated his 93rd birthday Aug. 16, 2019. A Reed College graduate and one of the half dozen…