Archive

2024

• Revolutions of the Third Kind
• Primitive, Emotional Beasts
• Focused on Failure
• My Life As a Cook
• Thinkers and Doers
• Nature’s Experiment
• The Election of Elon Musk
• Che vuoi? What do you want?
• The key to The Liquor Closet
• The economy of desire
• Can this city be saved?
• Why do some people seem to enjoy being angry?
• The power of psychological mirroring
• Fixated on growth
• The great Arizona food desert
• The Brutish and The Clever
• The terror, the terror
• Planning for the past
• You can’t always get what you want
• Alive and conscious of it
• The mastery of nature
• The tales we spin
• What is this moment?
• The rise and fall of schemers, empire builders, and big talkers
• Encountering Counter-Enlightenment
• How I earned “Most Improved in Canoeing”
• When reason vs. faith
• Homo whaticallus?
• Reverting to orality
• The choices we make
• Life and death on Hwy. 101
• The religion of politics
• On whispering to flies
• Are we governable?
• Firmness and flexibility
• Forget about death
• Dishwasher Chess
• Biochemical Me
• Finding time and space
• On dying happy
• Between sameness and difference
• Serenity or turmoil?
• A sequence of random events
• It’s life and life only
• Does the universe require a prime mover?
• The Emotional States of America
• If water could talk
• Perfecting my disappearing act
• Of mind and meat
• One with everything
• Health and science denial

2023

• America’s politics: Tit for Tat
• Freedom, first and last
• Sonoma Noir
• Systems of self-propagation
• Woe is democracy
• A bias towards becoming
• Rushing towards oblivion
• Rise of the machines
• The authoritarian magic helper
• What is the forbidden fruit?
• When worlds collide
• Our terrible love of war
• How we rule
• On hating haters
• A crime boss of botany?
• Can humanity be reduced to an algorithm?
• Taking care of business
• Should public hate speech be illegal?
• The MAGA-Anarchist Revolution
• The opposite of woke
• Dharma Barbie
• The other Oppenheimer
• The soliton of self
• Enough?
• It’s all Greek to us
• An ugly cost of green energy
• Tune in, turn on, be woke
• When the hypothetical becomes real
• Everything for everybody or oblivion
• Consciousness without intellect
• America’s political anti-hero
• Once upon a time
• Universal me
• Our fundamental confusion
• AI and the implicate order
• On being neurotypical
• What’s the point?
• The seed of consciousness
• Nothing Isn’t
• Transcending our predatory animal nature
• The fluid continuity of the real
• Blues and the abstract truth
• Feeding the tiger
• A pinnacle of success
• Why we must endure
• Have you thanked your kidneys lately?
• Breaking symmetry
• The probable uncertainty of being
• Nature always wins
• The life and death of a Vasculopath
• My new friend ChatGPT
• Irrational rationality
• Walter Clifford Barney – RIP
• The Unnatural Selection Zone
• Universal public education and freedom of thought

2022

• What’s holding you together?
• Free speech: the end or the beginning?
• It’s a loud, loud, loud, loud world!
• Our place in objective reality
• Squrlz in da hood
• The economy of systems, living and otherwise
• Floitin’ with Fascism
• Being Green
• The persistence of self
• Being Green
• Survival of the adaptablist
• Being Green
• Does the universe have a purpose?
• Being Green
• Warfare within, warfare without
• Being Green
• Set Theory, Intersectionality, and the Self
• Being Green
• The progress delusion
• Being Green
• The 10th Commandment
• Being Green
• The age of innocence
• Being Green
• Does life have a purpose?
• Being Green
• America, the game of
• Being Green
• Is modern society making us crazy?
• Being Green
• When money talks, people listen
• Being Green
• Moving to The City of Decline
• Being Green
• Reversion to the mean
• Being Green
• Life, the opera
• Being Green
• The evolution of All-About-Me
• Being Green
• The power of misnomers
• Being Green
• Metaphorical Me
• Being Green
• Excuses don’t count
• Being Green
• I don’t buy it
• Being Green
• “Malignant dissociative contagion”
• Being Green
• We are fine, yes?
• Being Green
• California’s anti-democratic housing regulations
• Being Green
• The ins and outs of fast-food
• The human sacrifice of America
• Being Green
• Purple Haze
• Being Green
• Enslaved to technology
• Being Green
• The end of titles?
• Being Green
• America’s Taliban
• Being Green
• Ufology
• Being Green
• The Universe of Yes
• Being green
• A tough fact to swallow
• When we are mythtaken
• Not just a Jew in name only
• Touching the earth
• Is crazy the new normal?
• Prognostications on the future
• When the Boomer bubble pops
• Old photos
• Resisting the bureaucratic mind
• Inflection point
• Killing our way to a better tomorrow
• Fences, neighbors, and private property
• A taste of freedom

2021

• Traveling at the speed of faith
• Take that, Mr. D!
• My final column, perhaps
• What we leave behind
• The hub of the wheel
• A life of food and cooking
• On being silly
• The truth of false duality
• How cool is that?
• A topology of being human
• When life is worth living
• Leaving Traces
• The democratizing debacle
• The best or the worst of times?
• Coming back?
• Equality before the law, and otherwise
• This too, too solid flesh
• Finally Fascism
• More equal
• The blemish of history
• In the land of the Id and the home of the crazed
• Gangs of U.S.
• The edge of the abyss
• Judge, juror and executioner
• Embracing chaos
• Civilization and its malcontents
• Born hungry
• On the wild bird circuit
• From fluidic to concrete
• Fumblers, stumblers and bumblers
• Commercial free
• Trumpism without Trump
• The “hi ya’ honeeeey” syndrome
• The willful and the passive
• GOP Doublethink
• The whole story of everything
• Navigating intersubjective reality
• McConnell’s Solomonic Solution
• America’s fight reflex
• Invasion of the hippocampus snatchers
• The banality of banality
• The revolution that didn’t
• The future of American democracy is poor
• Are we better than this?
• The Joy of Chaos
• Iconoclasm at the Capitol
• Cheerleader or doomsayer?
• Hacked to pieces

2020

• Freedom, selfish and otherwise
• Anger and our quest for shared emotional intimacy
• Better dead than red?
• My bullet-riddled body
• Living in a doctrinal world
• Between reason and feeling
• American Feudalism
• After Life
• The strange case of Donald Trump
• Semi-woke
• Developing Herd Humility
• Signs of Election
• Your part in America’s highest rated sitcom
• In the beginning was the word
• That Fly
• Karma, Trump and America’s Shit Show
• America’s Putsch
• The Great Purification
• The continuity of catastrophe
• Hating the haters
• I’m afraid of the big, bad wolf
• Apocalypse ready
• Shih the hermit
• America’s Kulturkamph
• Reclaiming my time
• On globalism
• The joy of chronic illness
• It’s Time for America’s 21st Century Nuremberg Trials
• From bias to bigotry
• The venality of evil
• The image instinct
• An early lesson in systemic bias
• Just so much fertilizer
• Between impulse and reason
• Optional locust coverage
• Nature’s resonant harmonic
• Lawn Sign Politics
• Outliers, Westworld and Trump
• Where we are now in the story and how it ends
• The left’s dilemma
• Surviving Trumponavirus
• Collapse of the imaginary economy
• Masking our feelings
• Gettin’ hairy
• The stimulus check shell game
• The battle of the trees
• RNA: Triumph of the willful
• Unmasked
• My April Fools’ ads that never made it to print
• We’ll always have Paris: A eulogy
• A week of Sundays
• In the time of no toilet paper
• Pandemic and the domestication of people
• Tearing the ties that bind
• Watchin’ the end of the world on TV
• A Buddhist final exam
• The Piper pandemic
• Covid-19: A war of the worlds
• The human experiment
• America’s not ready
• The growth paradox
• The problem of evil
• The homelessness Tsunami
• Accessory Dwelling Units, aka: ADUs, a building industry dream come true
• Progress at all costs?

2019

• 1967 and the death of Groovy
• Homage to The Great Waveform
• A not so grand theory of
• How to create affordable housing
• The craziness
• Change fascinates us
• Gaming the system
• Passing the baton
• Front Porch Fantasy
• The meaning of life
• The Golem of Artificial Intelligence
• Life at the Improv
• Talkin’ Dog-talk
• Knock-Knock
• Regional Gods and local heroes
• Theft and corruption
• The instrumentality of machine intelligence
• A border crisis?
• Deconstructing Sonoma
• Your real-life 3D movie
• The limits of freedom
• Society recapitulates phylogeny
• Perpetual elections
• Particular forms of torment
• No, we can’t all get along

2018

• My 400 mouths to feed
• The animate and the inanimate
• No land left for affordable housing? Hogwash!
• Eating out side of the box
• Screen time — then and now
• Dimples in Space-Time
• Let them eat plastic
• Craving a dose of reality
• Sonoma’s Urban Growth Boundary in Maturity
• My life as a sheep
• Justice and mercy
• The Beauty – The Horror
• Everything matters
• The dogma of no dogma
• The business of politics as entertainment
• The roots of ecstasy
• Seeking Ecstasy
• Ecstasy in everyday life
• The Best and Worst of Times
• The future is certain
• The horror, the horror
• The view from my back yard
• Pot Shopping
• Are you being too hard on yourself?
• The devolution of consciousness
• Mother Earth’s Hot Flash
• Nearing 70 but still livin’ in the 60s
• The Democracy Experiment

2017

• Authoritarianism in America: The view from 2050
• Things to Come
• Welcome to the Dark Side
• On ants and massacres
• Getting a grip on suffering
• Sonoma Valley’s fires and The Black Swan
• The fire of compassion
• The Dark Side
• From “Themsies” to “Selfies”
• Confessions of a cactus and succulent nerd
• Virtual Reality is dead; long live Augmented Reality
• Three-brained beings
• Our 21st Century, post-modernist mess
• When Fascism arrives at the ballot box
• Your life as an amoeba
• It’s so easy being green
• The responsibility of leadership
• Men’s war on women
• Sonoma, Super-Sized
• The pathology of happiness
• Sonoma’s Touristary-Industrial Complex
• Hit and myth
• Why it’s so hard to relax
• The search for autonomy
• When life throws you a curve
• Disfavoring moral complexity
• Sonoma’s examples of real, true and beautiful
• Predictably predictable
• Sonoma’s new oligarchy
• Paranoid leader, paranoid state
• Modern man in search of a smart phone
• The soul of Sonoma
• Name your psychopathology
• Rise of the grunting symbolists
• Sonoma’s choice: community or cash cow
• In praise of elites
• The rise of the underground
• America’s mean streak
• Beyond Orwell, way beyond
• Gaia’s Garden
• A return to the Byzantine
• Want to know your fortune?
• Call Me Spanky
• Right back where I started from
• Urine Trouble
• In appreciation of quiet
• Dehumanizing Humanity

2016

• Ubu Trump
• In love with the glow
• Body, Mind and Universe
• Game Over
• The Pseudo-Science of CEQA and an EIR
• Capitalist Morphology
• America’s Angry White Men
• Sex and male aggression
• My high school reunion
• Just Sayin’
• Grandfather Yoga
• The Liberation of Lowered Expectations
• When men are pigs
• Fixated on the future
• Intelligence, talent and ambition
• Competition, sportsmanship and politics
• With regard to difficult people
• Mean and Hurtful
• Fevered Visions of Dystopia
• Rights of the trans-human community
• Cloud Nine
• Levels of abstraction
• The peril of hatefulness
• The equanimity of annoyance
• Must history repeat itself?
• Eating Sunlight
• RoundUp, Slavery and Avarice
• Credit, debt and revolution
• Feeling Angry – Being Kind
• A trail of crumbs
• Sonoma’s true vocal minority
• Eating Chicken Little
• Robberhood and his Merry Men
• Exceeding Sonoma Valley’s carrying capacity
• Food-as-utility
• This must be what’s called getting old
• A language like none other
• A NIMBY by any other name
• Does Sonoma’s History Matter?
• On learned ignorance
• The color of greed
• Changing our narrative of conflict
• Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
• Affordable Housing and Sonoma’s Wheel of Samsara
• Big Pharma’s Inverted Values
• Selling Off Sonoma
• Trumped up by Trump
• The Dumbed Down States of America
• Sonoma County’s Vacation Rental Betrayal
• The child of invention
• Nationalism and Individualism
• Holding the Middle Ground

2015

• The aesthetics of intoxication
• Preferring Royalty
• Our War of the Worlds
• Friend or Food
• Technology takes command
• Managing Fear
• Cultural identity and gender science
• Tourism as entertainment
• From Eco to Echo
• Experience, memory and time
• From Homo sapiens to Homo economicus
• Baseball-bat-leaf-blower-badda-bing-badda-boom
• On caring for green, living things
• Blythedale, with a “y”
• The flip side of SMART
• It’s not easy being puny
• O’ Donnie, We Know Ye Too Well!
• Homo Sapiens 2.0
• Homage to Oliver Sacks
• The Unnatural World Moves Too Quickly
• Williams-Sonoma as Catalyst
• The horror, the horror
• The Age of Airnarchy
• El Niño is not our friend
• Not, but also not not
• Why the public water business sucks
• Why do people put up with all this crap?
• Global OCD: Greece, Germany and Palestine
• Ritual killing and the death penalty
• A Tendency to Tamper
• On Being Transcategorical
• The Mindfulness Mess
• The coolest geriatric generation in history
• Homelessness and our fictional economy
• No Neighbors/No Neighborhood: The Vacation Rental Problem
• The Happiness Habit
• Sonoma’s Creeping Urbanism
• Sustainable Ethics
• Council deafness on Broadway Oaks
• In Deep Water
• Ornaments of Liberation
• Majoring in Philosophistry
• Death as a selling point
• Dreamies and Movies
• The world’s most powerful religion
• Busted by my refrigerator!
• The Dynamic Tension of Society
• The decline of the intellectual
• Life’s Dynamic
• Madness in a crazy world
• Sports and the Great American Head Injury
• Good man, bad man
• Half-vast ideas
• Unity Through Diversity
• Water Rights and Wrongs

2014

• America’s Security Oafs
• Oil Price Skeptic
• Wealth-Porn Addiction
• Unreliable Testimony
• Clicketty-Clack
• A skeptic’s bread and butter
• Thanksgiving – Thanksgetting
• Fast money, slow money and no money
• Coming to terms with Halloween
• Ebola Rising
• Crazy wars of assassination
• Infections, virus and hacking! Oh my!
• The dawning of the age of aquarium
• Oceanic Mercury
• Why government is not a business
• Not so Grimm Fairy Tales
• If not for communication, what’s a metaphor?
• Multilingual Multiculturalism
• Mistaking Ignorance for Wisdom
• Monopolies of knowledge
• The poverty problem
• The role of ritual
• The case for a $15/hr. minimum wage
• Alison Von Derland
• Fee-fi-foe-fum
• He lives in a pineapple under the sea
• The rationality of the irrational
• The pepperoni tears of Richard Wagner
• Cause and blame
• The social mythative
• Things created, things destroyed
• Outmoded and outworn
• Radiation sickness
• How we play the game
• Some reflection on nicknames
• The nature of land speculation
• Figure and ground
• Sonoma wine tasting — welcome to the bubble
• The fires of hell
• Come again another day
• Sonoma wine bars: from cachet to cliché
• Transparency in government
• The living dead
• Sentimentally Sonoma
• Words and meaning
• So who’s the boss?
• The importance of being plastic
• Baby-sitting the baby-sitters
• The explicit and the hidden

2013

• The nomadic life of an information gatherer
• My daily paper
• Regarding all appearances as divine
• The All-American game
• Regarding the infinite
• The unintended consequences of doing nothing
• On poppin’ counterfeit pills
• Is my wife a witch?
• $elling $onoma
• In the bubble of time
• The grammar of place
• Signifying nothing
• The umpire strikes back
• Can you feel it?
• A victory of stats
• Sonoma’s Thneeds
• Ordinary madness
• Across the homegrown bagelverse
• The consumption spiral
• The notebooks of von Meier
• The process in place is corrupted
• Marking territory
• Guiding the hand of government
• Let them eat bugs…in space
• The real tourist trap
• All politics is internal
• Living in an immaterial world
• What weather type are you?
• Going nuclear
• Oh those Giants
• Letting boys be boys
• Citizenship in the 21st Century
• The food of the gods
• Disturbing the established order
• Drone wars
• In praise of old and shabby
• Marking time
• Preserving Sonoma’s small town character
• Masculine and feminine
• From hunter to hunted
• Life’s puzzle
• American mythology circa 6013 AD
• The Priests of Dionysus
• The lowliness of the long distance writer
• The business of America
• Understanding greed and envy
• Vampires among us
• Thievery plain and simple…or not
• Know thyself?
• Civilization by the numbers
• A well regulated Militia

2012

• Perfect boredom
• Idealizing violence
• In their own image
• What’s precious
• Our Mandala of meaning
• The politics of have-not
• Unnatural selection
• And long may it wave
• Gutenberg’s end
• The mother of us all
• Jobs folly
• Malled in America
• Society is basically good
• All the food that fits
• This column is 100% natural
• Finding America in the funny pages
• No beginning, no end
• Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber
• The way of the western
• The Higgs Aether
• Mass murder and free will
• Resting in complexity
• I like Ike
• Ignorance is strength
• The tempest of a teapot
• The arrow of time
• Technology: good, bad or neutral?
• Art, love, time and money
• The specialist-as-ignoramus
• The mythology of self
• The engine of survival
• Who owns the truth?
• Sticks and stones may break my bones…
• The consciousness problem
• Doing human being
• A boy and his Saurus
• A price, love has
• Freedom’s just another word
• Winners and losers
• Getting out
• Breakable
• Hunting and gathering at Safeway
• Loss and gain
• Is knowledge power?
• The psychology of the inconceivable
• Rich good, poor bad
• The thing upon which we all agree
• On the passing of an old friend
• Marijuana madness
• The tyranny of fiction

2011

• Happy Old Year
• New gets old
• It’s all about you
• My dinner with Audré
• Ripe fruits and red rumps
• From the Starship Latke Gravis
• The meaning of life
• A bite of the apple
• Just one of the gals
• You are your credit score
• The myth of management
• Last and first men
• The taxonomy of taxes
• Coming to terms with the bib
• Dark matter comes to light
• The season to be stupid
• My ears are burning
• The pursuits of happiness
• The mother of necessity
• Recession redux
• The last Roundup
• How I learned to stop worrying and love satire
• CEO: American royalty
• What’s the point, y’ know, of communicating?
• So sing The Supremes
• The Sellout
• Education 19th century style
• All hostages are killed, don’t worry
• Powerful men who can’t keep it in their pants
• Eating ourselves to death
• Attila the Hun: neighbor’s report
• Waiting for Godzilla
• I shoulda been a bank
• Pondering the imponderable
• To hell with us
• The mother’s milk of what?
• The miracle of folded proteins
• The overfishing of America’s wallets
• Walter’s hot dogs
• Nuclear disaster: the folly of duck and cover
• The decline of penmanship
• Kibble for people: an update
• Democracy of make-believe
• The Panopticon
• The Bull of Brooklyn
• About love
• A portrait of the artist as a very young girl
• Have Netflix, will time travel
• Hurrying forward while running away
• The Forum of the Twelve Caesars
• Torture, they said

2010

• The gifts of hospice
• Living in a banana peel world
• My body lies over the ocean
• Life just wants to be
• What do you mean you don’t like ketchup?
• Space within space
• Three nights in Vegas
• Earth without people
• Why here, why now?
• Welcome to The Dopotel
• Nations at war against themselves
• Political anger management
• I’m a body man
• Leaf blower? It must be Wednesday
• 21st century aether
• Picky, picky, picky
• Maybe aliens from space will save us
• The contextual self
• Making peace becomes a crime
• My life as a turnip
• When bad words happen to good people
• The end of the mailman
• Stuff happens. Now what?
• Gathering of the clan
• For the sake of a great shave
• The perverted aspirations of barbarians run rampant
• A universe of WIMPS and MACHOS
• What I meant to say
• Gender Blowback: Part Two
• Gender blowback: fear of feminine
• The power of the pile
• Fully surrendering to love
• Monday Morning 10:04 AM
• Heath care in the cross-hairs of history
• In the hot tub in the rain
• America’s new economic demographic
• Can you help me, honey?
• The whole in part
• Don’t bank on it
• About my old man
• A guide to difficult times
• Blackmail by credit card
• A matter of health
• Mouth shut mind open
• Trader Horn meets Avatar
• An irresistible memory of oneness
• Survival of the most cooperative
• Getting ready for 2012
• The great spam war of the early 21st century

2009

• Once upon a time in America
• Leaning into hate and fear
• My dream vacation
• Heaping insult upon tragedy
• Nowness for dummies
• One man’s junk – another man’s treasure
• An epidemic of happiness?
• 2009: A space oddity
• The inconceivable lightness of being
• Profiling…just for the fun of it?
• Rebuilding a truly prosperous economy
• Row your boat
• Attention K-Mart shoppers
• Looking back at the future
• And what if stars are great celestial beings?
• Chinese Czechers
• The body of metaphor
• Someone’s in the kitchen I know
• The dawn of ego
• Upon knowledge, generally
• Enduring a torturous debate
• The animate and the inanimate
• Not leading by example
• Increasing Gross Municipal Happiness
• Pirates, Incorporated ­– The world’s first IPO
• My Father, My Self
• Swine flu over the cuckoo’s nest
• For the sake of a good harvest
• The celebrity of nothing
• The metaphysics of the ordinary
• A note from Mommy
• Cycles
• From the mouths of dogs
• The power of choice
• Meditation on the heart-breakingly beautiful
• This statement is false
• A simple weekly column
• Reflections of a Post-Darwinian
• The economy of enough
• Nice letters and nasty notes
• The joys of tea
• Playing the fool
• A slice of time saves dimes
• Yet another modest proposal
• Creating our better self
• UFOs and advanced civilization
• The name is the rose
• Time, nowness and attention
• Depression jobs in abundance
• The breath of the world
• All the wrong places
• The domino effect revisited

2008

• Seeking happiness in objects of enjoyment
• Pork spareribs in mourning sauce
• Goin’ nukular
• Boys, men, victims and heroes
• Drawing on greatness
• Bumps in the road
• On ‘muttness’
• Congratulations, you got the part
• It’s the end of the world as we know it
• The economy of my secret self
• The aging of Aquarius
• Wall Street’s Dow of physics
• Emergence, confusion and wisdom
• Wheels, wheels and more wheels
• Don’t say I didn’t warn you
• In contemplation of 9/11
• Not so mad men
• 84,000 degrees of happiness
• Confessions of a recovering sarcastic
• Considering the universe within
• Playing the confidence game
• Speaking with silence
• The marriage of Abbott and Costello
• A webocracy of disembodied relationships
• A lover not a fighter
• Vox Populi
• Apocalypse later
• The soft underbelly of the Internet
• Bashing God for fun and profit
• Cable TV truth or fiction: You be the judge!
• This truth is false
• Spring training
• Empire’s decline
• The sutra of the heart of financial knowledge
• Feeling green with envy
• Desire that’s perfectly pure
• Anger and racism in America
• Life among the brokenhearted
• The nature of natural
• The dysfunctional democracy of America
• Hard work, thrift and the new American way
• It’s how you play the game
• On making dogs of heroes
• Non-obstructed interpenetrating simultaneous arising
• If animals could talk
• The world as it is
• Of art and the sacred
• Dinner for the vultures
• A world beyond words
• Hip bone connected to the …
• It’s life and life only
• New Year’s Letter 2030

2007

• Me, Mine, Thee and Thine
• When it’s all about nuts
• The kindness of strangers
• Why I will not talk in music class
• Falling apart
• Women are from Venus, men are from wherever
• The decline and fall of the lovely pink shirt
• A rose by any other name
• Illness as a fashion statement
• Blaming it on the system
• Paying the piper
• The sex lives of others
• That number is no longer available
• Chocolate Buddha: The exploitation of enlightenment?
• Who’s not weird?
• A child of the woods
• America the beautiful depressed
• Deconstructing reductionist philosophy
• The probability waves of intention
• Seeing the invisible
• Discovering the unburied life
• Creating Suburbitat not Suburbia
• War used to be hell
• The third chimp
• Longevity equals awareness of every moment
• Drowning in a sea of sound
• Why I don’t write fiction
• A display of primordial intelligence
• Understanding the nature of discovery
• Earth, air, fire and water
• First the murder, then the chicken noodle soup
• The tyranny of normal
• Life as a virtual experience
• Flexibility and firmness
• The business of city council business
• For the love of a great shine
• Marketing the hunger diet
• The forgiveness of the world
• I know historic character when I see it
• Shellfish on Prozac
• On cultivating kindness
• A cup of tea
• The airport security full-body massage
• The ultimate truth about French toast
• Man enough to tell the truth
• The sweet mystery of life
• When baby boomers’ health hits the wall
• Thoughts on the ‘surge’
• A perfect new restaurant just for you
• The new, improved death and taxes
• Corporate health care vs. Sonoma
• Just a matter of opinion

2006

• In anniversary of the New Year’s flood
• Illuminating the way of citizenship
• My life as a particle
• A look back at 12 years on city council
• The myth of adulthood
• For those of you unfamiliar with the term
• Stop the world, I want to get off
• The Morse Code of Heaven
• Affordable housing – a philosophy or an obligation?
• Understanding Sonoma’s UGB: Scarcity and abundance
• The politics of green
• The algebra of good and evil
• A eulogy for fallen giants