I have mostly sworn off TV news. Every once in awhile I’ll watch a local newscast but am always disappointed that there’s very little local reporting about stuff that matters. The producers never miss a chance to run some freakish footage—violence, animal antics, etc.—from San Diego, Florida, wherever. And national cable news is a […]

Hey y’all, I ran into old pal and real estate agent extraordinaire Chuck Gullett a few days ago. Chuck’s guest posted here before, and when he told me this story I encouraged him to share it with our blog readers. So I get the day off and you get Chuck’s heartwarming work of staggering genius. […]

I was treated to a whole bunch of this. Our trip to Mendocino, California, occupied us so fully and so well that I’m only just now writing this post today (Monday) on a 737 flying home. Only last Wednesday we were on a 737 to San Francisco. On our flight out, a young man with long blonde […]

As Beth posted earlier, we’re headed to Mendocino, California, Wednesday. I’m looking forward to another break from urban life in a beautiful place. If it’s anything like our trip to Anacortes, Washington, it’ll be terrific. City life can wear me down. Sirens, traffic, car horns, construction, brutal homelessness all conspire to sort of dull my […]

If you’re a Trump supporter, you think the whole Russian investigation is just sour grapes, a conspiracy of some sort, or that maybe a little of all of it is true but it’s no worse than stuff that’s happened in the past. Or it’s silly paranoia, sort of like the old movie, “The Russians are […]