Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

    Green man has been around for a while. He's thought to be a representative of a vegetative god, but he's shown up in many cult...

        In that moment when Patti Smith missed a lyric, apologized, nervously began again and was met with a warm applause that grew ...

Flowing   Creeks and waterways are beginning to resemble their old selves again. The vaunted El Nino has been producing rain in Califo...

 BALANCING THE YEAR      Memories seem to escape when the brain is between taking balance of the past year and resolving for the new ye...

IN A TENDER SEASON     The Back Story      Huddled together as a group of freshmen we thought it was an odd order. As new pledges we w...

A STAR ON THE CHEEK Archive Photo Courtesy of RMonseth     It was a raw winter night, shortly after the first of the year in 1980 and...

IT IS LIKE HENRY MILLER SAID     There's a line in a commercial that says "California cows are contented cows." Why not, h...

NO WET PAWS, PLEASE Neither Hemingway nor Joy like wet paws. But Hemingway is especially reluctant. Our recent light rains gave him...

HAWK EYE Photo by Kristin Cochrun     Kristin, our eldest, surprised me many years ago when she asked if she could borrow my Nikon fo...

JOY     There is nothing to remove the tragic sadness of Newtown Conn., but there is a dimension of humanity where actions prompt joy and...

BEING THERE     Joy in this season, or any other, is seeing parents or family members watching their kids in chorales, plays, skits, ball...

HOW DID HE DO THAT?      Were you too a sucker for a magic show? Amateur or big production professional-it didn't matter.  Even after...