Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I am indebted to Pat Hulbert who informs me that her father’s cousin, Yorkville’s Austin Hulbert, was born in April 1917 thus…
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I met with Betsy at her home on Vista Ranch behind the Breggo Cellars Winery a week or so ago and we sat down to talk. She was born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in…
The clocks are literally ticking as Mexico starts the final leg of the countdown to the 200th anniversary of its independence from Spain. Dozens of huge, solar-powered timepieces have been installed in this monster city's…
It was a warm and wonderful summer that ended last week with the Labor Day holiday. I usually avoid summertime extravaganzas big enough to require one to park on grass and get on a bus,…
Last week I wrote that Nate Davis was the most physically gifted young QB in the entire NFL and that it would be a blunder for the 49ers to cut him before he had a…
Last night representatives from the local water agencies met to hear a presentation by the Corps of Engineers on its plans for the Coyote Dam at Lake Mendocino. The public was invited. Bill and I…
An increasing number of drawing-room revolutionaries have begun to discuss their strategies to overthrow that despot, the musical score. Rather than treat the notes on the page with slavish admiration, these musicians — Uri Caine’s…
Just a couple of days ago I sat sweltering in the heat, feeling like even a sundress was too much clothing for the temperature of the day. Today I wear long sleeves, tights and boots…
(Wednesday, September 8, 2010) — Today I fly to Haiti. In some way I feel like I am going home. For three months I called an unfinished nightclub in Leogane Haiti home. I went to…