This morning I was all set to sleep in a bit, given that it's a holiday, the library is closed which means that I have to space out my cafe time ...
The Movie Called Big Sur
Nothing ever happened - Not even this. ― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur Streaming images flow side by side with the streaming words of Jack Kerouac as he ...
Autumn Colors 2014
The weather here in Berkeley has been so strange this fall - meaning there's been a bit of a heatwave - that the fall colors are not yet out. The only ...
Space Traveler Wannabe
Last week there were not one, but two spacecraft explosions. One was the Antares rocket that was unmanned, taking supplies up to the ISS - ...
Trick Or Treat
The image above was taken during one of my Berkeley neighborhood's Halloween celebrations. Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday, defeated by ...
Today in Arts History: A Poem By William Wordsworth
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850 Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be ...
Dreaming Of Train Travel
Sitting in a window seat, watching the countryside glide by, landscape after landscape sliding one into the other to make a complete picture of here, ...
Coming Back From Crazytown
Crazytown is the one place on the planet that really really sucks to visit. Primarily because it can be lurking around any corner in any town or ...
Lost Found And The Art Of Floating
The Barnes & Noble sat on the other side of the shopping center from Trader Joe's. After I had finished purchasing a few groceries, I started to ...
My Urban Off The Grid Life
Growing up in the sixties and seventies, even in rural America, was an explosive and enlightening experience. Everything was changing. Everything was ...