War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Clear, cold and still dark-thirty this early Thursday, the first morning of 2015, at least here on California’s north coast, still three hours shy of the east and Times Square. Surfing through the news as I honeyed-up my tea, a jolt — without any personal sense of it, reportedly a 5.1 earthquake just south of…
Bright sunshine and chilly air this afternoon here on California’s north coast, as another year wraps down. Big surprise for 2014 — price at the pump. Since I don’t travel much, or very far, been nearly a month since I ‘fueled‘ my old Jeep Comanche, and this morning, another $20 worth of regular, now at $2.77…
Clear and cold this way-too-early Wednesday here along California’s north coast — the last day of 2014. And to an old guy, anyway, a chill-ass ending to the year. Relatively-weirdly speaking, of course: ‘Las Vegas could see snow and rain Wednesday night and is expected to see a high of only 44 degrees Thursday. Those…
(Note: This is a re-post of mine from seven years ago, and as it’s end of the year again, appropriate in these timeline-memory stories. The original piece appeared here — my way-abandoned Website — on Dec. 30, 2007 And yes, indeed, 2008 was really one for the books, a watershed year). *** Near forty years ago…
Clear and cold this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — right now about 35 degrees, with a high of maybe the low-50s, but supposedly a lot of sun. Seems to have gotten colder, quicker this year. Or life in the age of warm (via NBC News): ‘First off: heat. Combined land and sea temperatures…
Amongst the news items this morning, an incident yesterday of the ‘all’s-well-that-ends-well’ genre after a 50-year-old surfer dude’s encounter with a great white shark — and in my old home waters. Kevin Swanson was surfing off Montaña de Oro State Park, just north of San Luis Obispo, about half-way between LAX and SFO, ‘…when an…
Despite a beautiful, sunshine-filled early morning, Monday afternoon finds itself wet once again — rain here on California’s north coast as the NWS terms it ‘isolated rain showers,’ but as reality reveals, it’s not all that remote. Clear skies are expected the rest of the week. As 2014 winds down, the epitome of the American…
Bright and full of sunshine this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast — still a bit on the chilly side, though. White, big-fluffy clouds paints a wind-blown sky looking-like winter. On occasion, when those clouds pass between the sun and my apartment window, the air itself appears to get darker real fast. Also this particular…
Cold and clear, and tons of sunshine this early Saturday on California’s north coast — supposed to be sunny through next week. Wait-and-see, of course. Another story I’d seen a few days ago, and just now comes back to mind — the think-tank RAND Corporation just published its “Blinders, Blunders, and Wars: What America and…
Clear, clean sunshine this Friday morning on California’s north coast — not a cloud in sight, and frost on nearby rooftops, first time this year, I recollect. Thirty-three degrees reportedly within the hour right now, and there’s appearance of some wispy ground in nearby trees — of what can spied from a small back patio…
