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Posts tagged as “essays”

Sad, Serendipitous: Book Review

‘The Third Life of Grange Copeland.’ by Alice Walker, 1970 ‘Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker’ Edited By Valerie Boyd, 2022 ‘The…

The Hundred Dollar Car

How often does it happen that you write what you want on a piece of paper, tack it up on a notice board outside a…

Living Longer and Healthier: Part 3, Blue Zones

The Blue Zones Project is based on the idea that by studying communities in the world that have a disproportionately high percentage of people living…

James Joyce’s Jewish-Irish Epic at 100

Norma Barnacle burned most of the letters she received in 1909 from her lover who signed his name, “Jim.” But she didn’t destroy all of…

Last Dance Before the Pandemic

I poured a glass of red wine and drank it as I got ready to go to the Community Park benefit party half a mile…

MUDdy Waters

“The East Bay Municipal Utility District Board of Directors voted Tuesday to cap water usage for households in much of Contra Costa and Alameda counties,…

KZYX Retrospective

KZYX was committed to community news from the very beginning. Bruce Herring, I believe, organized a patch-work of local news - getting people from around…

Outgrowing the Guns

My dad was raised a Midwestern hunter and military man and had quite a few guns, which he had me trained to use at our…

The New Errors of Downton Abbey

The crux dozen minutes of Robert Altman’s Gosford Park of 2001 unspool at the pace of parlor song. A real historical character—the matinee idol and…

Don Dukes, AV’s First ‘City Person’?

Donald Dukes, current Board member of the Anderson Valley Historical Society, is also one of the first “City People” to migrate to The Valley right…

A Grander Old Party with Bruce

Bruce Anderson, forever the Editor of Boonville’s (and the world’s) Anderson Valley Advertiser, has a reputation near, far and in between as a rousing, relentless…

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