Hiking where summer looks like springtime
Yes, California's golden (read: brown) hills are lovely, but even in non-drought years our mid-summer landscape seems coated by a dusty tinge that makes me long for a cool verdant setting. Fortunately for us, medicine for parched souls is just over the hill.
The blue band bracelet: one year later
For nearly an entire year, I’ve worn a simple blue bracelet on my scarred left wrist. It’s never been removed, though It has been touched and twirled; the writing on it has been read and pondered by strangers who have asked about its significance.
‘Water By The Spoonful’: Deep, intertwined theater
“Water By The Spoonful” is the second part of a trilogy by Quiara Alegria Hudes that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama. It straddles and intertwines two story lines: one about a wounded Iraq war veteran struggling mentally with what happened during his tour of duty, the loss of a loved one and his interactions with family and drugs. The second thread of the plot involves a group of deeply flawed characters, each with a load of personal baggage, involved in an online chatroom where they try and help each other over the difficult road to staying off crack.
GETTING OUT: Panoche Valley a rare treasure for California
In idle moments, I sometimes sit with a map and simply look for
In Gilroy, ‘you can buy pot, but you can’t dance downtown’
Calling Kevin Bacon! We need some Footloose-style shakeups in
