Cow Hollow Bartender Assaults Seniors

Cow Hollow Bartender Assaults Seniors

DORIAN bartender Jacob Ring, “Torito” to his friends, was up to his usual tricks Saturday night.  The youthful looking thirty-eight year old was once again serving drinks to senior citizens as if they were normal people.  No matter the four unsuspecting seniors were...
L’Osteria

L’Osteria

I don’t do restaurant reviews.  This is an exception.  I expect there will be more.  San Francisco is a special place for me.  I remember as a young boy first visiting San Francisco with my father sixty years ago.  He was the owner of a restaurant and hotel in the...
Gurus and Geeks

Gurus and Geeks

[First published in the Real Estate Magazine, April 1998, revised 2016]   I obtained the following definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary: GEEK:  A carnival performer whose act usually consists of biting the head off a live chicken or snake. GURU:  A...
What A Teacher Can Do

What A Teacher Can Do

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour William Blake, Auguries of Innocence Pierce High School in Arbuckle, California is not the kind of place you would expect a young boy to...
At This Point In Time

At This Point In Time

At This Point In Time   There have been no blossoms during the entire election season. The slight limbs of trees and plants bend from the weight of closed buds.   There is no color. Bees remain sullen in the dark intricacies of their swollen homes hung like...