* * * The day after the Sound Summit concert, all was quiet on the mountain again. Patches of California fuchsia provided the only ...

* * * Last night I finished the book, Untamed , that I mentioned in my last post. One of the hallmarks of a great story — and this ...

* * * The October-December issue of Bay Nature magazine’s feature on river otters got me thinking about good old Sutro Sam, who del...

* * * I haven't done an early rock-n-roll session in a long time -- getting up early enough to be somewhere by sunrise, that ...

* * * "You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go ...

* * * Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on" God say, ...

* * * I started putting food out for a neighbor's cat after noticing one day while I was petting him that he was very skinny. F...

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* * * " The unique properties of the Golden Rectangle provides another example. This shape, a rectangle in which the ratio of the ...

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