* * * I usually count it a good year if there are waterfalls and mushrooms at the same time the bigleaf maples are turning yellow. ...

* * * The day after I finished reading Ken Wilber’s Intergral Psychology , and despite the fact that it was a Sunday, the mail carri...

* * * I heard a weird noise when I got out of my car in the Sunset Point parking area. I thought the radiator fan might still be ru...

* * * The wind blew as if it had blown its last; The rattling showers rose on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed, ...

* * * The water's flowing nicely in Cataract Creek. It was raining when I set out down the trail, and I took a leisurely stroll...

* * * Back in my Navy days, when I was 18-22 years old, my best friend and I read a lot of Hemingway. We wanted to be world traveler...

* * * They used to say humans are the only animals who use tools. Then someone noticed monkeys using tools and even ravens using ...

* * * The season's first rains are sending invitations to all the salmon waiting in the deeps off Muir Beach. Redwood Creek has...

* * * "Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as ...

* * * I haven't been around the north side of Mt. Tam in a long time. Fairfax-Bolinas Road remains closed and gated just past A...