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Scurvy, the Super Bowl, and Covid-19
Eating an orange this morning, I thought about those generations of sailors who contracted scurvy because they were unable to get sufficient amounts of vitamin C on long voyages. I
Our Country From the Ashes
In Los Angeles lowered emission standards allow for hundreds of embalmed bodies queued up waitingfor someone to press a red switchsending a cargo of wooden boxes into a dumbwaiterfamilies who
Nancy Pelosi’s Tears are My Tears
I watched Nancy Pelosi cry on 60 Minutes when she was being interviewed by Lesley Stohl about the siege of the Capitol building on January 6th. For whatever you think
Side Effects of the Ghost Plant (from my YA novel-in-progress)
Molly had built a terraced garden around the diner with fruit and decorative trees followed by a circular row of shrubs and lastly, flowers—colorful zinnias and daylilies. “Hey, Mol,” said
Stewards of Democracy
If it were not for the parks in the East Bay Regional District, I would be going mad, between COVID and the state of our county’s politics, white supremacists storming
For the World That’s Coming
“Never in a million years could I have imagined I would go up to a bank teller wearing a mask & ask for money.” Not where borders and airports stay