
An Open Window In The Memory Palace
It’s the turn around spot. The turn around spot E. F. Jones was a young black man who was driving to Wisconsin to visit his ailing father in law. He picked up Steve Wolf and me hitchhiking in Berkeley, California and took us to Rock Springs, Wyoming, a one thousand...
True Stories
We will light the house with 500 candles to welcome in the New Millennium! My Invitation to our Millennium party We covered every surface in our living room, dining room and kitchen with hundreds of burning candles on December 31st, 1999, trying to provide enough...
The Pearl Is The Oyster’s Autobiography
Fishing for Time with a Wishing Line The rainbow arc of my 100 foot long bamboo fishing pole Is weighted with the far flung gravity of a 20 pound fly,On a hook the size of an anchor,Tied with Breadfruit, Hibiscus and Plumeria, Plaited with Phoenix wings of Coco Palm...
Imagination Is Everything – It Is The Preview Of Life’s Coming Attractions.
What is that a picture of on his back? I was cooling down with my 6 year old son son Jordan, at Raging Waters Water Park in San Jose, California on a hot summer afternoon, bobbing in a 350,000 gallon wave pool, when where a young Latino man walked by above us on the...
The Danger Zone
Freeze! Put your hands up! If you move I’ll shoot! A policeman crouching in a bush shouted this command to me on the night of my 25th birthday. My friend Paul and I had been helping a very old couple move out of their suburban home into a trailer park in...
Food, Glorious Food! If You’re Afraid of Butter, Eat Chocolate Bacon and Drink Cream!
Tito's is a Santa’s Elf’s Best Friend! Elf Elixer I was at the Mountain View train station two weeks before Christmas, waiting for the 8:27 train to take me north a few miles to Palo Alto, when I was suddenly surrounded on the platform by several Santa Clauses...
Life is a Series of Adjustments to Other People’s Nuttiness
No! No! No! No! No! You no order that! I tell you what you get! Waiter Edsel Ford Fong (often called the world’s rudest waiter) shouted this to me and Debbie Jenkins in 1968 at Sam Wo’s Restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown, correcting our order. Fong greeted...
Child is Father to the Man
“You don’t pick your totem animal. Your totem animal chooses you.” Raven sunrise at the Trona Pinnacles • Photo by MMB This quote, which I heard recently on a podcast, shed some light on a seminal event in my young life. When I was a child, my family was at an outdoor...
The Famous and The Infamous
“If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.” I often heard this call to action from Scoop Nisker coming out of my radio, at the end of his progressive news reports and alerts on San Francisco’s KSAN and KFOG radio stations. He was an author,...
Seize the Day! Tales from Overseas and Far Far away
“We hid most of the wine in the back of the cave and made a false rock wall so that the Nazi’s wouldn’t find it and steal it.” Rene Loyau was an old French wine maker in the Loire Valley village of Vouvray and was spinning tales for us young Stanford students...
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