Ruminations about this and that

Tomorrow is the Ides of March, famous as the day Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate by Brutus, Cassius and a bunch of others. That was in 44 BCE, which would be about 2057 years ago. The Roman historian Plutarch writes that Caesar had been warned...

Rumors

This is not your Fleetwood Mac column or some aberration from the Bluegrass path! It might even be somewhat nefarious (nawww not really). But, with all this weather we have been hit with lately…all of May’s rain for the SF Bay area in one day with more on the horizon,...

S’More

I am the kind of Grandmother who would travel 3,000 miles for a chance to babysit my ten year old granddaughter. Ali’s parents (my daughter and son-in-law) have gone to Croatia to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. My reception at their home in Warwick,...

Sad Times

Enough of this already! We are all going through Corona virus burnout now and unfortunately it’s far from over. Yesterday would have been John Prine’s 74th birthday but this terrible virus ended his life well before he had written all of his songs for us.I Zoom jammed...

Safe in the shadows of the street

It’s the Christmas season. A giving time. A time of year when many of us look beyond our own needs and perhaps become more acutely aware of the needs of others.I have a lot of homeless friends. Folks who I’ve met walking the bike trail around my...

Salinas fiddle contest, June 1977

 daily grist; a wise man once said nothing  – – – – – – -but, it wasn’t me. JDRhynesI don’t know if they still have this contest but back in June of 1977 during rodeo week in Salinas California they used to...