Too Fast for Slow
June 20, 2017First post in well-more than a week, the longest period in the 10-year history of Compatible Creatures — a literary gap of the times. A lifelong exertion of a writer absent. A variety of reasons…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Oceans of Acidity
June 9, 2017Warm and bright the late-afternoon Friday on California’s north coast, rain expected tomorrow and Sunday, clear again by the first of next week. Early summer… Weather-wise as opposed to the DC comedy-of-errors, the climate continues…
T-Rump at Dinner
June 7, 2017Weak, near-pathetic sunshine this early-evening Wednesday on California’s north coast, trying hard to break through the merging marine layer, and previewing a wet-cloudy future the next few days. According to the NWS, ‘unseasonably heavy rain‘…
Life ‘Handled with a Chain’
June 6, 2017Faded-yellow sunshine finally scuttling the overcast here this late-afternoon Tuesday on California’s north coast — pale light it is, as supposedly rain starting tomorrow night and mostly-wet through the weekend. Dreary this morning, and seemingly…
Climate Change — ‘A Paramount Issue for the Left’
June 2, 2017Windy and sunny this late-afternoon Friday on California’s north coast, drawing-down on another warm, gorgeous day. Early reports forecast maybe some rain for the end of next week, but right now a most-pleasant environment. T-Rump’s meltdown-yanking…
‘An Angry Child’ Makes Bad — Sad
June 1, 2017Sunny and cool this late-afternoon Thursday on California’s north coast — high, sparse clouds shining through a smooth, crisp ocean breeze makes life along the shoreline more-than fairly nice. Anti-nice and horrifying was the scene…
The ‘Trump Deviation’ on Climate
May 31, 2017Sunshine and warmth this Wednesday evening on California’s north coast, a scenario of the good-as-it-gets category — not much wind helped the heat. According to the NWS, however, tomorrow a change of pace with a…
T-Rump’s Climate-Change ‘Game Show’
May 30, 2017Finally, a lifting of a tedious marine-layer this late afternoon Tuesday on California’s north coast, allowing some faded-yellow sunshine to drive away the gray. We continue our fog-bound trek to summer — officially, just over…
Irony Holiday
May 29, 2017Fog classified as ‘Patchy Drizzle‘ this early-evening Monday on California’s north coast — a gray-chilly Memorial Day. There’d been some way-faded sunshine on occasion in the afternoon, but mostly light wetness… Tone of Memorial Day…
Russkies in the ‘War Room’
May 26, 2017Overcast and gray this late-afternoon Friday on California’s north coast — no sunshine around here today. Although the NWS is calling for heavy-warmth this weekend (60s-to-lower-70s along the shoreline, 70s-to-lower-90s, inland), fog embedded clouds keeps us…