Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

                 A favorite saying from the 1970's struck me as I commiserated this era of dysfunction, threat and exasperating stupidit...

          A few shots of local color and a couple of quick thoughts         The US media needs to chill. They've been on a frenzy, doing...

          It's called the Twisted Grove, one of the many Redwood families in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in the Santa Cruz Mou...

Cambria court wash          April rain is rare on the California central coast, not being an" April showers brings May flowers " k...

          It would be easy to make the case we are in decline, slipping into another brutal epoch but that would foreclose on what history t...

BREATHING DEMOCRACY LIVING A REPUBLIC One of the great joys, and thus a reason for gratitude in this season of thanks, is the  vita...