For a long time I have been feeling sorry for the younger generations. They are forever followed by their history…there is no escaping it. In my day, we kids could be threatened…
Opinion
About thirty years ago, I served on a jury in a case regarding the government’s power of eminent domain. In this case, the government had claimed private land in order to build…
Dear Editor: I really enjoyed the letters from Paula LaBrot and Andrea Ehrgot [Elliott] and their expressions of deep feeling for the land, Paula noting its renewal post-fire, and Andrea the depredations…
The 2019 Computer Electronic Show just closed, leaving heads spinning as usual. It has served as the “proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies for 50 years—the global stage where next-generation innovations…
“What are you writing about?” my son asked, when I mentioned I had a column deadline coming up. “I’m not sure,” I answered. “I think I may write about impeachment.” “Really! Jumping…
There is a myth of the perfect child and we, as parents, want to believe in that myth. Beginning when our children are born, there are small signs that our child may…
“Out here in the perimeter there are no stars.” —Jim Morrison, The Doors, The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) During the summer months, the evening sky is filled with countless stars…
As I write this, the Twilight Zone marathon is on and the remaining hours of the year 2018 are running down. Old Man Old Year is limping along on his last legs,…
When the English began populating North America in the early seventeenth century, the colonists inevitably drew some conclusions regarding the continent’s indigenous population. Perhaps most significant is that these “noble savages”—to use…
Life is beginning again in our mountains. Miriam Geer and I drove the entire mountain highway from Yerba Buena Highway to Mulholland Highway to home. What we saw! The scope of the…