I will probably not live forever, so it is time to make some plans for my passing. Last month I called Eversole Mortuary and inquired…
Posts tagged as “essays”
A fellow I got clean with years back — he stayed, I strayed — at the old Ford Street Project
While praise and glory has been heaped on California governors and biographies written about them, standing behind almost every one of them was a First…
In the late 60s and early 70s the Civil Rights Movement burned hot and fierce, fighting its fight into every area of American life, including…
David Fechheimer, San Francisco's premier private investigator, died April 2 after open-heart surgery. We'd been friends for 44 years, minus two. David is Stephen Best…
“The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth…
Atsuko and I were on a superbike traveling fast over the Golden Gate Bridge. I was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. A cop pulled me over and busted me
Way back in the early 1970s I stumbled upon a then-new record titled "Blue Moses" by pianist Randy Weston. It had a very colorful, almost…
Toward the end of my four-year tour at Keesler Air Force Base outside Biloxi, Mississippi, it was becoming clear that President Nixon’s quixotic attempt to…
My mom was trained as a registered nurse during the Second World War. She spoke often of the miracle of penicillin, at that time only…
If a behavioral phenomenon that is demonstrably and seriously harmful to society becomes a pattern, we (the societal we) pass a law against it, which is…