Cultivating Outrage

Long before I worked at JPL, I was a space enthusiast. In 1968-69, I saved many books and magazines about NASA going to the moon. The mag...

I enter sweepstakes all the time. I win small prizes now and then. In recent years, I've won a digital camera and a couple of $100 g...

Deji Bryce Olukotun has written novels, short stories and essays. He has one story in this collection.  He read a great short excerpt fr...

Nick Duretta is a personal friend, and a member of the book discussion group I'm in. He has a short story in this book . At  the Los ...

Inside the cave Of our many  travels around  Yucatán , one of the  more unusual   was to see the cave at Loltun .  We went with our Cal...

Sudden, silent rule changes Progress, but not quite complete. We finally made it through the interview, but now they require us...

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...