On Being Simply True

  We live in a magical time of consumerism, don’t we? I mean, make a wish—“I’d really like a pair of flannel pajama pants with dogs on them”...

Tom Clift on bass. Photo courtesy of Steven Young Photography This is a cautionary tale. It is a story of love, and trust, and friendship, a...

  This is what I know: Sometimes it’s not the huge problems that get us down, it’s the accumulation of many successive small ones. Also wh...

I recently had lunch with Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, past president of the California Writers Club (CWC) and also past president of the East ...

  Last week I finally--FINALLY--signed on with a new Internet Service Provider (hereafter known as the NISP). It took two tries. After recei...

  Photo courtesy of Jeanette Ragland If anything happens to me—and it won’t, I promise—but if anything happens to me, please take gentle lov...

  I park in the lot above the meadow in Bogart Park. It’s early and cool. As I step out of the truck, the quiet settles on me like the light...