Notes from Near the Last Page

Story on the Front Burner Women of the Oak Savannah’s, my fourth novel has started and ended my day for what will soon be two years. I stand on the edge of the end of my work of seventy-five thousand carefully chosen words. Hot Spring Honeymoon, my previous novel, a sexual farce was in the […]

Paid Well Enough to Not See it Coming…

For 25 years, I have written about the social and natural evolution of Napa, a diverse county that includes rare and valuable biological “hotspots” and 140,000 people, most of whom are associated with what’s now referred to as the wine “industry.” During that time, I have learned something about developers. Foremost is the fact that […]

Precious Versions of Personal Hell’s

Lifeblood of Poetry and Passion Good morning from San Diego. Will report there is some fog out my eighth floor window at the Manchester Grand Hyatt. The heatwave seems to be over. National Weather Service is expecting another record setting week ahead. Welcome to life between the heatwaves. My barber on Melrose in Hollywood expects […]

It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Canary Starts Sizzling…

Setting Sail for a Better Future Let’s head out from here where sanity prevails. First, we have a global manmade climate crisis. Got that? Let’s get our priorities right. Wake up! Next up is worldwide population levels continuing to expand while we wreak havoc upon the support system all these new lives will need if […]

The Kilted Salvation

It Was Not A Surprise The Scottish National Party swept this last week’s elections. They built majorities by convincing Labour Party voters to switch allegiances to the Scottish National Party. I had followed last year’s vote in Scotland to decide whether they would secede from Great Britain. The initiative failed but the Scottish National […]

We Don’t Drink the Water, We Take the Water

It may well be a mistake to read The Sixth Extinction. I’m susceptible to dour outlooks. Rather prefer a cheery point of view. Once in my Haight-Ashbury days my cosmic optimism came psychedelically amplified. Replacing countercultural adventurism for this four decade long experiment in neoliberal economics is morphing into a rolling planetary disaster. Case […]

Kissing George Wallace at a Petting Party

Fire the Boat Up… We’re Coming For Them… It is all connected. Let’s review. Climate change is real and carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere is the cause of the problem. Income inequality is real and uber wealthy titans of industry and finance have rigged capitalism and now literally spray money to regulators and politicians […]

Sleeping with the Spineless Devil

Sleeping with a handsome little devil…