Poetry: My Temple of the Green Hills
Photo by Spencer DeMera When I’m searching for trust in the transience of everything, it comforts me to walk the green living hills in meditation, listen to the creek chanting…
Poetry: For Which It Stands
Photo by Darius Bashar I pledge allegiance to the person you believe yourself to be and to the one you see yourself becoming— that kaleidoscope of possibility. One world, many…
Local History: John Michael Price
Price House, Pismo Beach Whaler, Vaquero, Rancher, and Founder of Pismo Beach Part 1: From Bristol, England, to the Central Coast Unexpectedly I fell in love. Not a…
Reflections: Spoiled by Computer-Generated Orcs
Since the weeds in the back are getting really tall, I avoided pulling them by watching the 1944 film Passage to Marseille, or at least the last half, the other day.…
Poetry: Hunting for the Northern Lights Near Trefor
New SLO County Poet Laureate Caleb Nichols —Previously published in the New England Review, Vol. 44, No. 4 (2023)
Poetry: Catch
Caleb Nichols at the Inaugural Poet Laureate Reading January 24, 2025 Photo by Matthew Rabago …
Video: People of Honor
Behind Barbed Wire, a look at Central Coast Japanese American life during World War II, was held on January 31 at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande. The program included…
Poetry: If I Lost My Home by Wildfire
Photo by Mike Newbry on Unsplash (after Betsy Kahn’s Sipping Grief*) Would my sips of loss be for family photos or for our conversation gatherings in the kitchen and living…
Personal History: He Would Be 100 Years Old Today
This guy would've been 100 years old today. I sure miss him. There was no one funnier than him, or as mischievous, or as nimble with words. I once saw…
Poetry: Scheherazade
Scheherazade, fabled storyteller of Arabian Nights, under sentence of death, told stories with no endings. Endless new beginnings, night after night, kept her alive. But stories, for all of us,…