In a new location, seemingly in a new life. I’ve moved to Merced, down in California’s San Joaquin Valley and in with a daughter who’s working on her PHD at UC Merced. A short, but…

Sunshine with near-cloudless skies this late-afternoon Monday on California’s north coast, and warm, too — the comfortable heat mainly due to very little wind flow. In the morning all haggard-inducing overcast as been the norm…

(Illustration: ‘The Hindenburg Airship Disaster,’ found here). Sunshine and breezy this early-evening Monday on California’s north coast — dog-running this morning at Ma-le’l Dunes was way-cool, though, a bit on the sharp-breezy side. ‘Breezy‘ the…

(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion,’ found here). Clear and a bit on the cool side this Thursday evening here on California’s north coast — a beautiful day, and even…

(Illustration: Edvard Munch‘s ‘The Scream,’ lithograph version, found here). Chilly-cold and wet this Tuesday evening here on California’s north coast, and with a forecast for more rain tomorrow, at least there’s hope for sunshine on…

(Illustration by Handoko Tjung, found here). Cloudy and gray this Wednesday near-evening here on California’s north coast — although bright and beautiful for most of the day, got overcast and somber by late afternoon. Not…

(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Seated Pierrot,’ found here). Clear and a bit chilly this Friday evening on California’s north coast, a sunshine-splashed day and didn’t feel quite so cold as the last week or so. Supposedly,…

A direct consequence of the T-Rump code: A brightly-nauseating example of the open nastiness of the T-Rump era. On Friday, a bunch of young, high-school assholes from Kentucky, wearing MAGA hats, accosted Native American veteran…

(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion,’ found here). A pathological nut-case getting ready to speak to America — T-Rump is scheduled for a TV speech in about half-an-hour, and maybe…