california | california
Oct.22.2012
Today, I have the privilege of launching the Official Blog Tour of author T. K. Harris. She starts by sharing how her novel, Phantom Dreams, was born.It started with a dream. I know cliché right? But it really did. I had a dream that I was walking through a large crowd of people, surrounded by...
|
Oct.08.2012
California's 3 strikes law, the harshest, most punitive statute anywhere in what's known as the civilized world, became part of the criminal code after voters approved it as an initiative in 1994. As the proposed law was being written, voters were told it would apply to violent offenses only, but...
|
Sep.19.2012
A fellow photographer and colleague recently posted this link on his Facebook page and it caught my eye. A Dad and his daughter were recently rescued in Yosemite when they got trapped in this dangerous valley I once photographed - check out the article to read more: http://www.nps.gov/...
|
Aug.22.2012
My novel, DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME, is based on events that happened to my family over the course of years. The novel starts when the three grown children return home to their mother who has just suffered a severe heart attack. While they’re waiting for her to live or die, the novel...
|
Aug.22.2012
http://ediemeidav.eventbrite.com/
Hi all,Hope summer is treating everyone well!Join me on a Thursday night, August 23rd from at 4 to 5 pm California time for a live chat on Friendship in Our Time: Lola,California, Creativity and Idealism
The experience is said to be like being...
|
Aug.06.2012
Gold occurs in iron ore and also in veins of quartz. The veins are called lodes. Some of these veins are huge. Think of the vein as a layer in the rock or a layer of quartz in the rock mountain. Gold miners chip, stamp, blast, blow up or spray powerful water guns onto the veins to break up the gold...
|
Jun.08.2012
Yesterday I took a road trip. Drove from Birmingham, Alabama to Vicksburg, Mississippi just to see the Mississippi River.
I think it was about 9 1/2 hours of total driving and I wasn't alone. I had my three kids with me (ages 6, 4 and 2) and my in-laws.
To be honest, it wasn't my idea. My in...
|
May.17.2012
I am swimming in Lake Temescal, a gemmed oasis flanked by meadows, trees, including Redwoods and local Manzanitas, and hiking paths smack in the city of Oakland. But even before this, at Temescal Pool just down the street from Oakland Tech High School, I had theoccasion to rescue swamped bees...
|
Apr.22.2012
Photo: BP icon, from its Wikipedia page.
I used to have a column in my college newspaper with the above title. I didn't care much for the title--or, as it turns out, looking back, for my writing abilities--at the time. And I don't care much for the title now,...
|
Apr.20.2012
I've always been a bit ambivalent about vinegar. Read more....
|