Where The Artists Play

Where The Artists Play

The artists arrived so quietly the locals could not say when Mendocino became an artists’ colony.  Like a solitary ant that finds a pot of honey laying down its pheromones to attract the others, one artist discovered the beauty of the Mendocino Coast, then another,...
Angst

Angst

“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous...
The Sad Story of Three Misfits

The Sad Story of Three Misfits

Three men I knew but not as well as I thought—a father, a disgruntled employee, a son.  Tragedy, families ruined, a bizarre plot to assassinate a President and detonate a dirty bomb in Washington D.C. by a disturbed young man who according to a TIME magazine reporter...
Coffee

Coffee

Panorama photo of Martin Schmidt’s coffee art by Krissy Jones   Farmer Brothers locked up the restaurant market by loaning out equipment—stainless cabinets, brewing machines, pots, and other essential accessories.  The policy helped cash-poor restaurateurs...