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 […]
Boys of the 60s ~ Divorce, Wrestling and Drugs (12 to 16 years old)
A Memoir. I suppose I loved my father. I cried when he left. Once, after he had moved from our home, he promised to take me fishing and I waited on the curb for a long, long time. My mother finally came and got me and that was that. That was a long long time […]
The Boys of the 60’s ~ The Adams Family and Pocatello Idaho (9-12 years old)
A Memoir. Mother had sold our home. Father had moved to NYC to work. And we vacated our little apartment and began our journey. Dan and I piled into mother’s 1959 Chevy Impala with some clothes and we left for Pocatello Idaho. Actually, to the outskirts of Pocatello known as Alameda County. We pulled into […]