I drove out to the coast to meet Norman in the heart of Greenwood/Elk at his delightful home, where we sat down with a cup of coffee each and began our chat. Later in the…
Anderson Valley Advertiser
Greetings one and all. If you’re sitting comfortably then I shall begin. The Anderson Valley Theater Guild will present its 2010 production over two weekends in the very near future. The play is entitled ‘Dearly…
Last Saturday I returned from my early errands to find a mid-morning message on the phone from my uncle, who by happy coincidence also lives in Ithaca, New York a few miles from my house.:…
Last week, the president warned a graduating class against a few gadgets and toys, iPods, iPads, Xboxes and PlayStations, where “information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of…
Our dear friend Quinton Duval died last week at the age of 61, and the world lost a most generous soul and a marvelous poet. Q, as we called him, was a quiet person and…
There are many real estate nightmares in the naked city. This is only one of them. — Ralph Weinstein * * * Malibu, California — Call her Joni. She’s 75. She’s my father’s widow, his…
Some gardening friends have been enjoying sugarsnap peas for several weeks, they say. They planted the peas in October. I planted peas in April and the plants are still only six inches tall. On Saturday…
I had been promising something fun and the weather had cleared. This is going to be great, I tell myself. I grabbed a hat for me and a couple for him, thinking, "It won't be…
Picture a vast hole being dug into a mesa at Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratories that will be 125 feet deep and three football fields in area.Now, imagine it being filled in to make one vast…