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Posts tagged as “essays”

The California Coast

Yes, a person can get homesick every now and then when gone south for the winter. But there is a cure: call home. Doesn’t matter who. Just call any number in the 218 or 701…

Self-Loving

I was one of those young writers who, for fun and incentive, once papered the four walls of my rented room (from floor to ceiling) with form rejection letters

Bright Eyes, Good Brain

It’s said that Shirley Temple is responsible for one of Graham Greene’s least good but most Catholic novels The Power & The Glory. In the late 1930s an impoverished Greene, scrounging for rent money, became the…

Gregg

It's been a long time since I first heard about underground missile silos in Colorado. It was the Cold War and we were ready, so the story went. Twenty years or so ago, I became…

The Heads Up Duo

In anticipation of the upcoming event, I met with René Auberjonois at his home in Anderson Valley and we were joined...by René’s good friend, Howard Hesseman

Water, Water Everywhere

Drought has a way of changing everything. The latest mandatory rationing in Brooktrails is 110 gallons a day per household. In Willits it’s 150

The Field Of Mars

This nimble little falsettist of a Mars turns out not to fit the traditional image of war-loving deity that his stage-name suggests.

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