War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Crystal-clear and cold in an alliterated early Friday here on California’s north coast — all is quiet. We’re supposed to have sunshine and warm temperatures the next few days, and no rain for some time. Woke up in a sad funk this morning. On occasion I start a day like this, especially if my kids…
High overcast and a bit on the cold side this way-too-early Thursday on California’s north coast, with not much rain in sight for the next few days. The weekend is forecast for sunny and warm — Ha! to winter. However, the weather is after all, the weather and nobody knows the future. Especially, the guys/gals…
Heavy ground fog this way-too-early Tuesday here on California’s north coast, and the rain storm scheduled for last night didn’t show up, so it’s been re-positioned for later this week. The rainfall off last weekend’s deluge, though won’t stop the drought conditions, did give California’s communities a reprieve for awhile, but the months-long high-pressure system…
Overcast with shimmering ground fog this early Thursday on California’s north coast — but no rain. Our latest storm front is history. And so is water — the San Francisco Chronicle: It is a bleak roadmap of the deepening crisis brought on by one of California’s worst droughts – a list of 17 communities and…
Clear and cold this Tuesday morning here on California’s north coast, but: In northern Minnesota right now, the temperature has dipped to a staggering -42 F. The chill is running so deep in the North Star State that it’s not only colder than in the lands above the Arctic Circle, it’s actually colder than some…
Thick ground fog and chilly this way-too-early Wednesday here on California’s north coast, and really quiet. This the first day of 2014 — and your point? This past year, it seems to me, has to have been one of the fastest on record. The Boston Marathon bombings — April 15 — feels as if it…
Clear and sunny this afternoon on California’s north coast — a mild-kind of chilly, though, which ain’t too bad. Nature is too weird even for smart people: When I heard about the aquifer, I had almost the same reaction as when we discovered Lake Vostok [in Antarctica]: it blew my mind that something like that…
High overcast and cold this Friday morning on California’s north coast, a bit windy, too. Despite a grueling week, it’s almost over and the sanity-belt of those 48 weekend hours lies not-quick-enough ahead. Health shit again last night, this morning — can’t sleep and it feels as if I’ve been up since Monday. An emotional…
Despite all my crying and gnashing of teeth last night, it’s Monday morning! Again! And again, cold and clear on California’s north coast with today finally, the deep-cold of the past week might start to end — we’re at about 26 degrees right now on the way to a forecast high of 50, and tonight…
One great wonder of nature is a clear, clean and cold sunrise — here this Sunday on California’s north coast light approached in a ever-expanding wave of bluish-white. And did I say, cold? Record low temperatures all over the area last night and this morning, and bringing all the assorted frigid conditions these percolating icebox-like…
