There are three items remaining on my 2013 To-Do list that have haunted me since last January. I’ve been meaning to get to them all year, or rather, I’ve been procrastinating until the final weeks of this year to dare … Read on.
Category: Lifestyle
Petaluma, Sonoma County, California, is where I live. I satirize it with affection in my work both casually and cruelly. Because I love it.
Take My Wifi, Please
So, I’m on deadline penning a puff piece about the local choir’s Mozart program and Comcast, my ISP, took a shit on my block, which meant I had to trawl downtown Sonoma for free wifi to file my story via … Read on.
The Vintners of Our Dissed Content
It all began, as these small odysseys often do, with a misunderstanding. In this case, the issue was entirely my own, and the fact that it persisted for nearly 40 years is not only embarrassing but rather damning to any … Read on.
Sonoma Slim Pencil Tree
Ceci N'est Pas Un Artificial Christmas Tree When it comes to the holidays, it seems that nary a nanosecond transpired between Halloween and Christmas this year — just long enough for the Thanksgiving turkey to raise its head and lose … Read on.
When is Autumn? Like, now, baby.
If I were an olde English person, I’d write, “Autumn is icumen in, lhude sing cuckoo!” If I were Ezra Pound, I’d write, “Autumn is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm!” But since I’m just a small town newspaperman, I’ll simply … Read on.