News and culture from a rural, red/blue California town named one of America's 10 most charming places.
Rural California politics, culture, childrearing and dumb memes. Ex-journalist. Even more annoying once you get to know me.
In my ninth decade, looking back and stumbling forward--from a village in Northern California to L.A., New York, Portland, to a village in Minnesota--and home again, to the room where I was four.