Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

"sitting on the dock of the bay  wasting time..."     Frank was a honcho at Cal Tech, and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)...

winners        The hometown kids prevail and Jon Batiste wails. Good nights in the US.        High tides, driving rain, b...

orientation      It is a difficult challenge that confronts all of us. In a time of intemperance, anger and hyperbole how can we re...

EXCERPTS OF A LIFE      Winter mornings in the depression could be raw. Karl would stand by the rail track and collect pieces of coal thr...

PASSING DAY LIGHT Cambria April on Windsor KNOCKOUT      The Boys Club boxing space enveloped a smell of canvas, leather and balm ...

THROW BACK THOUGHTS       Dave Letterman said it the other night. The Indiana on display in the last week is "not the Indiana I reme...

HE SPOKE WISDOM      Pay attention to the women in your life. Treat them with kindness, tenderness and affection. That in essence was an ...

DECEMBER DREAMING and ghosts-see below WHERE THE PAST LIVES      Snow had turned to freezing rain and the old wiper blad...

ENTERTAINING HISTORY      Their off and on romance engaged us and once they managed to get past all the obstructions we took delight in t...