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Category Archives: March 2017
Rescued
A couple weeks ago, I carved a few hours out of my schedule to go for a hike. It may strike some of you as strange that I hike alone, but I’ve been doing it all my life and it … Continue reading
Published in Gail Binkly, March 2017
This land is whose land?
Don’t let them sell off our public land! Keep it open to the public! There is a lot of rhetoric, fears, misinformation and emotions being expressed over so called “public” lands. Today, people and groups are all fighting for control … Continue reading
Published in Dexter Gill, March 2017
Frozen
I’d like to tell you about my favorite outhouse. Do you have history with many outhouses? you ask… Why yes, as a matter of fact, I do. When you pride yourself on being a dirt bag, ultra-hardy mountaineer, rebelling against … Continue reading
Published in March 2017, Suzanne Strazza
Star-struck
While shopping for discounted Christmas items, I overheard a conversation between a customer and a cashier. I should have moved along and minded my own business except the employee started gushing about her kids’ thoughtfulness. They’d bought her a star … Continue reading
Published in David Feela, March 2017
My alternative life story
So you think you know me? Well, what if I shared my life story with you – using alternative facts? First, let me assure you that nothing would change from the original story of my birth. I was born a … Continue reading
Published in John Christian Hopkins, March 2017
The Great Wall
about it. We’re building the wall. We’re building the wall. In fact, it’s going to start soon. Way ahead of schedule, way ahead of schedule. Way, way, way ahead of schedule. It’s going to start very soon.” — Donald Trump … Continue reading
Published in Galen Larson, March 2017
Dialed up
Believe it or not, I have actual friends all over this country. All over the world! That way, I know I am loved in several time zones, but I don’t have people infringing on my free time for frivolous activities … Continue reading
Published in March 2017, Zach Hively
Once upon a time in Berkeley. . .
Like Forrest Gump, I have witnessed a few key historical events close up, though I lay no claim to having played any meaningful role in them, nor even having grasped their significance at the time. So the recent flurry of … Continue reading
Published in David Long, March 2017
Repeat performance: Ute youth group scores with second film, produced as part of project to address recidivism
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is addressing the problem of chronic substance abuse and criminal behavior with a wide range of measures designed to encourage individuals to make healthier lifestyle choices. The Recidivism Reduction Initiative, a program offered through the … Continue reading
Published in March 2017
Tagged Ute Mountain Ute
Homelessness in Cortez: How it happens
Homelessness has many facets. Each story is unique. Recently I was able to interview four guests staying at the Bridge Emergency Shelter in Cortez about the factors that led them there. The shelter provides free overnight housing from mid-October through … Continue reading
Published in March 2017
Tagged Bridge Emergency Shelter, homeless
Deadly dozen (Prose and Cons)
The cliché that certain crime novels “transcend the genre” is as shopworn as the genre itself can sometimes be. But there’s no disputing that a new generation of crime novelists, many of them women, are rewriting the rules and bringing … Continue reading
Published in March 2017, Prose and Cons
Once upon a time in Berkeley. . .
Like Forrest Gump, I have witnessed a few key historical events close up, though I lay no claim to having played any meaningful role in them, nor even having grasped their significance at the time. So the recent flurry of … Continue reading
Published in David Long, March 2017
Making lyric mud in Todos Santos
BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR … It was the late great Hobo bard Utah Phillips who made me do it … Go back with me to Marin County. North of San Francisco. 1976. When California’s children, post-Sixties, were still flowering. It was … Continue reading
Published in Art Goodtimes, March 2017