POETRY ANTHOLOGY. San Mateo County Poet Laureate; “The Power of Poetry and Spoken Word”, presents “I Have a Dream; Inaugural poems For a New Generation by San Mateo County Youth”. A Special Project by the San Mateo County Arts Commission. Buy a copy! My name is Aileen Cassinetto, I’m the Poet Laureate of San Mateo […]
Call for Submissions for FYR a New Online Literary Magazine 10/13/2020 Deadline
GUIDELINES. October 13th is the submission deadline. Questions and Submissions: Email 2020FYR@gmail.com My name is Lucas Salinero. I am a recent HMBHS graduate and Editor-In-Chief for FYR, a new online literary magazine that will publish writing and illustrations created by all people (of all ages) in response to the recent wildfires. In collaboration […]
Connect During These Covid Times: The New vyris Literary Magazine is Looking for 500 Word Writing Submissions
LITERARY SUBMISSION: I know you are engaging with a population for which I and others don’t have access to but would like to ask you if you can work with them in creating something. It will give people such a mental boost to express themselves and see it later in a publication. As we go […]
Do You Know the History of the Crystal Springs Watershed?
ARTICLE. Authored by Andy Howse from the Open the SF Watershed website OpenTheWatershed.org is a local environmental and outdoor organization that has been working with the San Francisco Public Utility Commission to improve public access to its 23,000 acre Crystal Springs Watershed in San Mateo County. While we recognize that the SFPUC’s primary mission is to […]
InPerspective: How Development Will Undermine Your Water, Sewer and Fire Security
ARTICLE. Insights, Infrastructure, and In General topics on Sustainability by Gregg Dieguez (Speech given at the 1/8/2020 Midcoast Community Council Meeting). I speak to you tonight about the lack of sustainability on our mid-coast, and what it means to you: the residents, ratepayers, and taxpayers. You are aware that the Big Wave development, placed on […]
Two Cats and Two Humans Travel in Peril
Fiction. Cats: everyone loves them, and everyone must know they do not travel well. But, knowing that didn’t deter me from taking Peaches and Buddy to Costa Rica where I lived for two years. They had traveled before on a longer flight to Holland when I lived in The Hague. I did my homework: the airlines and […]
The Boys of the 60’s ~ The Summer of Love, 1967 (16 years old)
A Memoir. That summer, the summer of love, the summer of 1967, went ballistic. Everyone left school that summer, as usual, but some, quite a few actually, returned completely different. Yes, I had ventured out during my sophomore year, but that summer I took a hike to hell. My friend said he had family in […]