‘Go Ask Alice’
June 13, 2014Ground fog this early Friday on California’s north coast — just a little while ago, the sky was clear and a full, bright moon hung like a porthole high in the southern sky. And for…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
‘Our’ Iraq
June 12, 2014(Illustration found here). One of the most-haunting and ultra-sad images of Iraq is the photo above of a child fleeing with others from Barsa, southern Iraq, in March 2003 — now 11 years later, is…
Guns and No Roses
June 11, 2014(Illustration: Police escort children away from Sandy Hook Elementary School, December 2012, found here. And a shooting Tuesday at a high school in Oregon was the 74th such event since then). This is one freaked-out-crazy…
Tea and Trumpets
June 11, 2014Up early this morning to some sweet news — for a change: In the most-stunning upset since Republicans took over the House of Representatives four years ago, Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his GOP primary…
Political ‘Fratricide’
June 10, 2014Clear and a tad on the warm side this early Tuesday on California’s north coast with another sunny and “hot” day scheduled for us — of course, the word, “hot,” being relative. We get warm…
Regret
June 9, 2014Clear and beautiful this way-too-early Monday on California’s north coast as the weekend is now history and we have to face the musical notes of a work week. Light is faint in the rising dawn,…
Ultimate Optimistic
June 8, 2014Bright sunshine this Sunday morning on California’s north coast — the weekend more than half gone, and the garish tomorrow fiendishly well in sight. Clock-produced time a fascinating fantasy fueled primarily by presupposed notions, or…
70 Years
June 6, 2014Overcast with a touch of ground fog this early Friday on California’s north coast, but the huge-most-important thing is that it’s Friday. Friday! And despite all the work and toil, the week has seemed to…
Web Watch — ‘Trap and Trace’
June 5, 2014High overcast again this early Thursday on California’s north coast as we continue to plow on through the work week. Time appears to be moving faster, like water finally flushing down a drain, sucking quicker…
J-School Jump Street
June 4, 2014Overcast and a touch of ground fog this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, and a warm breeze, too. The air’s not really ‘warm,’ but feels like it, though. In the atmosphere this morning, though,…