Blue Heron Blast

Lots of people have covered this Skeeter Davis song, Brenda Lee, Patty Page, Abba's Agnetha and Julie London to name a few but Karen ...

The Washington Post runs a weekly contest in its Style Section called the 'Style Invitational'. The requirements this week were to...

I saw the young red tail hawk on this branch as I was driving out of the canyon this morning. His sibling confidently and gracefully flew aw...

“We have openly said that the map will never again be the same as on June 4, 1967. For us, this is a matter of security and of principles. T...

Early last year, as some of you may remember, my friends Tracy and Stanley bought me a DNA testing kit from Family Tree DNA . Simple kit, y...

I saw the juvenile hawks flying away from their nest for the first time this morning. I saw them together on an old dead branch as I left t...

The San Francisco show failed to ever fire. I could have just as soon pulled two thousand dollars out of my pocket and set it aflame. The mi...

I saw this footage before I left for San Francisco last week. There is a resurgence in right wing neo nazi groups throughout europe and th...

Gold Ingot Press, Old Mint It has been a very nice week, this being the fourth day of my journey up to the Bay Area. The show at the Old ...

Bored indeed, Arnold.  Maybe Maria Shriver, California's ex first lady, watched her husband's boorish behavior with this reporter a...

I saw the man and woman walking almost everyday together. Year in and year out, it was obvious that they still loved each other's compan...

It is obvious that teachers are now being painted as one of the main villains in the conservative right's battle for America. Education ...

Many thanks to all of you who attended our party last night. It was SRO at one point and everybody seemed to have a really nice time. Some o...

Pundits (and yours truly) are fond of making broad statements about the present. It has been recently stated that this is the most polarized...

I think that I recognize you by the cut of your coat, friend Is it possible that we once both made the same big time mistake? Swore ...

The young red tail hawks are going through a sort of geeky juvenile stage. They are growing very quickly in their home, perched high up in ...

One of Fallbrook's most beloved characters, Jingles, passed away on April 12th. Jingles aka Ric Januari had been around these parts fo...

I don't want to sound like some color nazi, but ... Have you noticed the invasion of strange yellow hues that are starting to litter th...

Our friends, in the House, those champions of limited government, passed H.R. 3 today. This is the bill that would end tax credits for compa...

Sarah Palin dropped by the golden state Sunday to spread her inimitable message to the Central Valley farmers that were assembled in Lemoor...