I had always liked Kanye West but the like turned to love on Sept. 2, 2005 when he veered off script at the Concert for Hurricane Relief and spoke the truth: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” His new song, “Stronger,” has been rattling around in my head, lyrics so catchy they are rump-shakin [...]
As a child, I hated working in the garden. Gardening in those days meant pulling up weeds and chucking rocks from my parents’ ever-increasing vegetable patch in the back yard of our home, which was situated on a bench at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains in northern Utah. This bench had long ago been [...]
Labor Day weekend in San Francisco is always fairly quiet because all the cool kids have packed their fur-covered beach cruisers, art projects and drug collections into their gas guzzling SUV’s with “No Blood For Oil!” bumper stickers and caravaned over to Black Rock Desert, Nevada, for the annual non-conformist, anti-capitalist, pro-anarchist, pro-nudity, post-modern, pre-Armageddon [...]
It has been eight months since my last post for The Great Whatsit. During that time, here’s what’s been happening with me:
My relationship of nearly ten years, with the woman I’d hoped to be with for years to come, ended.
I left a decade-long freelance career I liked and was good at for a job with [...]
Abigail Adams was nearly 40 years old when she first saw Paris. It was 1784. Her husband had helped negotiate a peace treaty — the Treaty of Paris — the previous year. He was still in Europe, along with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, to help secure commercial treaties with the new United States. When [...]