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The Cat, The Potted Palm, and the Naked Lady
Thirty years ago, I wrote a story called "The Cat, The Potted Palm, and The Naked Lady," published in Issue No. 4, "Straight from the Gut," Ken Kesey's "Spit in the Ocean" Magazine (Winter, 1978, Lee...
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Since you liked the old Tigger story, here's another from that era. In 1980, I wrote "Honk If You Think She's Jesus," which was published in Pulling Our Own Strings, Feminist Humor& Satire,...
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Sita, 1989-July 2008
The little guy had cancer, and this afternoon we went to Cheshire Cat, totally against her wishes and her will, to get a blood test. It was the worst possible result, and I came home without her. I'll...
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Piedmont Avenue Tales
Like the storied path to Canterbury, Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, is a street of dreams. They all come here, alone or in company, on foot, in a car, on the bus, or pedaling a bike. In the end, it is a...
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More from Piedmont Avenue.....
Most folks, when they think of Piedmont Avenue, envision something like Mille Fiori, a flower stand which has been on the Avenue since I moved here nearly 30 years ago. An area of “cute shops,” “great...
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We must not become a nation of cowards....
My friend Rosie is part of a family from Cambodia who purchased the Monte Vista Grocery on Piedmont Avenue a decade or so ago. She is short, beautiful, feisty, with a wonderful scamp of a daughter,...
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Dr. Jane Goodall’s Impassioned Suggestions: “What We Must Do to Care for the...
Dr. Goodall, Dame of the British Empire, who recently shared The Leakey Prize with Japan’s beloved primatologist, Dr. Toshisada Nishida, has a new book out, written with Marc Bekoff, detailing what...
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मुसिंग्स ओं सोल्स्तिस
About 10 years ago, I found an eight-inch Miwok pestle grown into the rootball of a fallen giant in the forest at the Vedanta Retreat at Olema. Miwok used these to grind acorns for flour, they say. And...
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Guns vs. Butter
Here we are again, the same old question. We can borrow trillions of dollars from foreign nations and risk thousands upon thousands of the lives of our young people in pursuit of an illegal,...
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A posting from the Gay Center of the World: Ignorant, bigoted people, do your...
Two stories above me on the roof of the new Packard Lofts on Broadway, as I pedal pedal pedal at the Downtown Oakland "Y", a green and white flag fights with the rain and wind, wrapped around its...
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“The world is a beautiful and terrible place. Deeds of horror are committed every minute and in the end those we love die. If the screams of all earth’s living creatures were one scream of pain, surely...
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Carousel of Happiness
Once upon a time there was a wonderful 17-year-old red-headed boy from Texas who was raised up right so when his country was at war, he wanted to do the right thing. Even though the war was so wrong,...
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Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 - 1968
Nearly a decade ago, my friend Grace Harwood sent out the above card in honor of Dr. King, commemorating the brave stance he took against the VietNam War, for which he was vilified. With her kind...
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Why We Need The Ledbetter Equal Pay Act
Note: This story is for Suzanne Conti and all the other tough, brave, farsighted women who carry it for the rest of us. So good to know there are those whose dignity and self-respect will never be on...
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"Once there was a way to get back home ...."
This post is particularly dedicated to Harry Ibsen and Constance Carlson Ibsen, who share my loves of great cars and honest unions, with my love. mpMaybe he was one of those "Depression Era kids"...
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Chop Vegetables, Eat, Meditate, Walk, Sleep...
I have knelt at her feet more times than I can recount; more than a dozen times, she touched me with her peacock feathers after I’d stood for hours in endless lines of like-minded pilgrims; I walked...
View ArticleA Post-Script to my Posting on "Eat, Pray, Love"
One thing that has always seemed most extraordinary to me is that there are decades of rumors and more direct accusations of sexual misconduct on the part of Muktananda and others in the hierarchy of...
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One time I heard Gurumayi speak of a fella who had left his wallet in his shoes in the shoe room outside the meditation hall. To no great surprise, the wallet, together with thousands in cash, was...
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Rambling Midnight Thoughts on that Wacko Preacher in Florida, Etc.
Exactly how these self-appointed “Christian ministers” get the “call” is unclear.Certainly some, such as the late Rev. Jim Jones, might well have “gotten the call” watching the wooden plates fill up...
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