On a hunch I decided to look in the coast newspapers to see if there was any mention on Charlie Manson. I was not disappointed.…
Posts tagged as “essays”
Graffiti is mildly annoying in small doses, but no city can risk allowing it to spread. Defacing public or private property is a test, and…
What is seduction? It's when you aim to persuade someone to have sex with you, whether they want to or not. But maybe it's lots…
Georgiana Hathaway entered the world in early December, 1887, at Point Arena where her parents had resided for years after emigrating from Maine and Massachusetts.…
Picture a slim, beardless ruddy-cheeked Swedish Santa Claus in a slate blue business suit and brightly striped bow tie with the rough, gnarled hands of…
I pinched another one out of my motorcycle seat recently after I made a right turn, and afterwards failed to cancel my non-self-cancelling turn indicator.…
Among the most alluring of cross-species collaborations is truffle hunting, a pursuit that brings dog—or, more rarely these days, pig—together with man. Women, it seems,…
The pacifiers were sold one to a package. I asked for a dozen—maybe $20 worth back then. “That's a lot,” the clerk said. “You don't…
It's all about attention: we all want it, we all need it, so how we gonna get it? There is a finite amount and social…
As an adult, the smartest thing my mentally ill and drug-addicted brother did was to move to the City and County of San Francisco. I…
That’s the name of a song which reminds me of Ukiah. I needed to visit an appliance store on the north end of town. When…