You never know what you’ll turn up at a book sale. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. While working on the Mendocino County history…
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At 16, I passed the GED exam, received a high school diploma and was granted emancipation from my parents. I asked my dad if I…
In my father's day, people who did specialized, skilled things were called engineers. He was an electronics engineer. He maintained the radar apparatus at Chincoteague…
“Flight 75, you’re cleared for take-off.” “Roger that. I’m rolling.” Wednesday, Feb. 6, was the last time that once-familiar conversation was heard at Mendocino Transit…
It won’t be a political tragedy, no matter who wins, but I can’t help seeing the district attorney’s race as the sad, final act
Eliza Durbin was born to Theresa Fugate Durbin and her husband Daniel in Missouri during the last month of 1828
In 1974 an Okinawa-based dermatologist and Army Major named Alvin Alexander and his co-author, a physician at Montefiore Hospital in New York, wrote a paper…
I recently visited my neighborhood chain drug store to purchase picture postcards to send to friends. I purchased my previous batch there perhaps two years…
Sitting on his half-folded, inverted entrenching tool, its handle stuck into the mud, Private Jamieson shivered awake as a gust of wind tore the poncho roof away and the water poured down on him.
When a colleague decided to change careers and started law school years ago she asked me a question raised in one of her classes: If…
On a New Year’s tour of Cuba, my wife and I visited Ché Guevara’s mausoleum and monument in Santa Clara, where his pipe is prominently…