I have an article in the most recent North Bay Bohemian on ICE’s raids of Marin County apartment complexes. If you haven’t heard, ICE is sweeping Bay Area apartment complexes to arrest illegal immigrants, but they are also using the…
Are our cosmetics safe? Some people say no. Increasingly, experts are looking to the chemicals in make-up for the answers to cancer rates and other health problems. Personally, I don’t think there’s anything to worry about–especially if you don’t wear…
I have the cover story in the Pacific Sun this week. I interviewed novelist Anne Lamott and playwrights Laurel Graver and Ann Brebner about the adaptation of Lamott’s novel, Hard Laughter, into a play. I really enjoyed writing this one–all…
I have a new cover story in the Pacific Sun. It’s about a group of moms starting an “EcoMom” movement–an attempt to get moms from all over to share tips on what they can do to help Global Warming. The…
Did you hear that the FDA decided that cloned meat and milk are safe to eat? I looked into this issue for my newest article in the North Bay Bohemian. Excerpt: THE Food and Drug Administration may think cloned animals…
I have the cover story in the Pacific Sun this week. It’s an interview with David Roche, who has written a new book called the Church of 80% Sincerity. I really enjoyed the conversation I had with David. Here is…
Check out my new article in the Pacific Sun on Coast Miwok death ceremonies: When a person died in a Coast Miwok village, everything went quiet. People spoke in whispers and moved gently, hushing their children and cringing at every…
Check it out: This week’s issue of the Bohemian has my restaurant review of Le Bistro in Petaluma. Le Bistro By Joy Lanzendorfer I had heard a lot about Le Bistro in Petaluma. After all, the restaurant, sitting unobtrusively on…
Last month, I spent time talking to video game developers in Marin County. I got to go to their offices, ask them about their games, and think about having fun a lot. It was, well… fun. The resulting article is…
My new article in the North Bay Bohemian looks into how California is spending the money we give them for schools. Maybe the problem isn’t so much the amount of money in the system as how the money is being…
Check out my cover story in the Pacific Sun about Marin County poets. I really liked doing this one. Not only did I get to think about poetry for a month, I got to interview respected poets like Jane Hirshfield,…
My cover story on The Clock of the Long Now is running in this week’s Pacific Sun. Scientists are creating a clock that will be installed in a mountain in Nevada. There, it will quietly tick away the days, years,…