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In honor of Fairy tale day, several of our great writers of iPinion have written a fairy tale in celebration. Make this day magical!
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Those who survived the holocaust never said “heat” when describing what happened in 2049. Instead, they called the aftermath of the apocalypse The New Era. When temperatures on the planet broke 140 F, millions died and civilization descended into chaos. “Hot” and“heat” became terms of...
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Yesterday was a normal day here in Winters, California. I went out in the morning to pick up trash that people toss out their windows as they drive along Putah Creek. I was surprised at the amount of trash I found, because only about a...
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Ostensibly, I am the political science writer for these pages. Certainly, others dabble in politics all the time, but if I had to categorize my own assignment and/or status, it would be the Poli Sci Guy. The problem is that “science” implies logic. Common sense....
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“A disaster beyond your imagination will occur.” When the Phantom has uttered those words so many fabulous times, he, of course, was not talking about the current POTUS. Could he have been? Maybe. I wrongly preached a wait-and-see approach after the election — after all,...
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At the beginning of my new novel, Oink. A Food for Thought Mystery, Emily Addams, foodie professor of women’s studies at Arbor State—a land grant university in Northern California — finds herself an unlikely suspect in the poisoning of Peter Elliott, professor of plant biology...
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So, Ivanka Trump is moving into an “unpaid” position in the West Wing. Of course, after telling the world she would have no position in her father’s White House. With only real estate experience, son-in-law Jared Kushner has also assumed a key role in the...
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…couldn’t put Trumpty together again. Period. We have heard much about new starts, turning a new page. Many political observers have suggested the shutting down of his Twitter account, and/or making a sweep of the staff and getting some much better people around him. Quite...
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I think my wife is going crazy. Have you ever seen a chicken with its head cut off, I mean clear off? Well that’s exactly how she is acting! She’s running here and there and then back again, mumbling as she goes. I suppose all...
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