Enough time has passed since Super Tuesday that I feel it necessary to thank Humboldt County specifically and California broadly for voting and generally supporting Bernie Sanders in the democratic primary. Now let’s get the rest of those votes counted fairly and delegates assigned. This primary season isn’t over. Why am I so blunt and […]
Dr. Oop
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Being Here
I had a one-two punch this week: On Sunday I got to see a beautiful brand new little baby that my friends made and on Monday I spent time in the ICU at St. Joseph Hospital visiting an older friend who is having a tough time after a very invasive cancer surgery. I hope to […]
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DJs, St. Paddy’s and a Gut-string Quartet
John Steinbeck set his 14th novel Cannery Row in the height of the Great Depression, in a town dominated by one industry: fish canning. We live in such a place now — wait. I was going to write an introduction about a changing mono-economy, its effect on the local culture and how the citizens view […]