Just staying steady in this time of High Wind can be exhausting - takes a village, really. So we'll get to Petaluma City Council to stand for our endangered friends and call for City Council to pass the "It Won't Happen Here" declaration this evening, promptly at 7 pm for [...]

Friends and family and friends I haven't met yet are in turmoil. What happened to the mostly kindly world we were used to? Liars and bullies with big money interests seem to have taken it over...but I haven't given up hope. We don't really know these new people and they [...]

Great challenge: keeping body (and soul) together...riding out the upcoming upheaval with integrity. Loved Henry Miller in Henry and June "Everything Bright and Beautiful" he would say while ruining his marriage and losing the status of lover (but not the friendship) of fellow trail-blazing writer, Anais Nin. Much racy copy! [...]

Holidaze 2016 wasn't going to be complete without singing with others. But we missed Wings of Glory and a few other opportunities getting ready for family. So what was GREAT was our friend, Duane Bellinger, called to say "community sing tonight at Aqus" and I told a friend and our [...]

Coming out of dream time, I was Alice Through the Looking Glass with card people toppling over my head. Scary! But reminded myself they're all just playing cards. But then came the rift in the time-space continuem and its menacing hole which I swiftly moved away from. Don't want to [...]

So I admit to more than a little anxiety about election results. We COULD get Trumped just as Russia is rattling sabers again and the Middle East is, well, afire! And the planet, of course, is on fire...millions of environmental refugees knocking on doors where people don't want to let [...]

Please don't believe the robo calls about Bill Wolpert not supporting a Rainier Cross Town Connector. For years, Petaluma's moderate politicians have claimed they are "for" Rainier while "progressive" candidates are "against" it. This makes no sense as no one has ever been able to come up with a way [...]

A double-whammy for me: Tom Hayden's death just after hearing Bill McKibben at Bioneers makes me cry a bit, then I want to seize the day, Carpe Diem. As Bill McKibben said last weekend at The Bioneers Conference "Give it all you've got," referring then to all the efforts to [...]

So what's up at Bioneers' 27th Conference at the still glorious Marin Civic Center (a turquise marvel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and kept beautiful by the people of Marin)? Keynotes this time are Bill McKibben (who told me farming was the most important thing we could when I bought [...]

Can't count the number of times we've gotten up extra early to get chores done and get to Ripple the World, the Sonoma-famous breakfast created by Daily Acts's Trathen Heckman and his tribe following after the mag. of the same name. We used to keep Ripple the World the magazine [...]