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Mindfulness Won’t Pick One Up from Marin Hospital
Finding a ride to Marin Hospital for a routine cancer screening should have been simple. It was not.
Marin County...
Occupy Caracas, Regime Change in Venezuela
The U.S. has overthrown the Maduro regime in Venezuela; captured its leader, Nicolas Maduro; and occupied the country.
Continuing a...
Guest List: One Never Knows Who They’ll Meet on NYE
New Year’s Eve, 1999. It was a party to remember, and a quarter century later, it still haunts me.
I...
’Twas a Wine Country Christmas, With our Most Sincere Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore
’Twas a Wine Country Christmas and all through the cellar
Were stowed bottles of vino and this lucky feller.
Since I...
Ouch, the Wisdom of Pain
Can I turn pain into wisdom? I suppose that’s what I’m trying to do right now, as I sit...
A National Reckoning, the Clarifying Power of Nonviolence
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Birmingham in 1963 for protesting segregation, he argued that nonviolent...
Trump Peace Plan Scam: A Study in Diplomatic Malfeasance
The official U.S. line on how the peace plan to end the Ukraine war emerged has Steve Witkoff, Donald...












