Cultivating Outrage

This evening, I went to hear Nancy MacLean speak about her book . It's been on my reading list for a while. She gave an excelle...

I remember reading Dick and Jane books as a child. In particular, I have long remembered one red  Dick and Jane  book with a recursive c...

In November, I read that Dave Kopay lived near Occidental and frequently walked his dog on campus. I bought his book and hoped to catch...

The Los Angeles Times ran a story last week about how some in Marin County want to change the name of the Dixie school district.  The cont...

I've known Ivy Bottini for years. She's now 92 and there is a new biography / memoir. Today at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Arch...

My name is in today's Los Angeles Times . But it's not quite  “ my letter. ”  I'm only quoting an anonymous someone else. Ro...

Now that pot is state-legal, I've been experimenting for the first time in decades. Here's what I've done this year: In Feb...

I travel to Mérida so often that I rarely write about it. Here are a few items worth mentioning. Victor at the Palacio de la Música ...

This is just crazy: Consider the intersection of two busy streets, Ave and Blvd. Both streets have three lanes of traffic in each directio...

We are in never-exciting Juarez , where we expected to finally get Victor's visa . No such luck. 😒 Yesterday,  even though I kn...