C’mon Gilroy and MH, locate the library downtown
I love the idea of a downtown library. What could be better than
Beer in the Garden: Fact or Fallacy?
We've all been told things since we were kids. You know, things like "don't walk with the pointed end of scissors sticking out," or "don't go out side barefoot because you'll step on glass." And so it is that we come to some gardening adages.
A (lack of) flying nightmare comes true on the tarmac
You know how you read the stories in the paper of poor, tortured souls who board a plane for a one-hour flight and six hours later they are still sitting on the tarmac in a plane full of people who have not eaten anything but a piece of wood disguised as a granola bar and whose deodorant has failed thanks to the hot, Texas sun and the lack of A/C in the sweltering plane? And you know how you always think, “I hope that never happens to me?”
Getting Out: Spots to savor before spring is gone
When I watch our spring green hills begin to turn brown each
Getting Out: The next challenge: Mt. Tallac
Exactly one year ago, I challenged you. I hoped to either inspire you or provoke you to join me on a rugged hike to the top of Clouds Rest, one of Yosemite's iconic peaks. The first of our preparatory hikes was on New Year's morning. I have led a New Year's hike for several years, and it is usually an intimate affair. Last January, when more than one hundred of you came, I knew I had touched a nerve.