Poetry: The Spectators
Photo by Piotr Szajewski As the sun begins to set, on the highest tips of leafless twigs are perched at least fifty sparrows, all facing toward the setting sun…
Poetry: Domestic Incantations
Photo by Jonathan Borba There are no trivial gestures. Each day is summoned not by grand events, but by the smallest rituals: the pulling of curtains, the clink of…
New Podcast Explores SLO Public Libraries
If you visit, borrow items from, or feel passionate about your local San Luis Obispo County public library, there’s a new podcast you can listen to now, or bookmark for…
Poetry: A New Day
Photo by Daniel Adesina To hold the day before me like a rare treasure, the hours smooth pearls strung by hand on a thick thread of longing. To recognize…
The Balcony Gardener: The Pear Cube Tea
Photo by Tim Foster The Balcony Gardener noticed the frost before she felt the chill. A silvery film on the railing, the kind that makes you pause before disturbing…
Poetry: Birth and Death
Like the trial run to the hospital when I was pregnant, I visit the San Luis cemetery with its stone and plastic-flowered landscape. Death comes with birth, yet my…
Literacy Connection Honors Learners and Tutors
In 2025, more than 80 volunteer tutors from The Literacy Connection, a program of SLO County Public Libraries, have helped 184 local adult learners improve their reading, writing and English…
Bioneers Conference Returns to SLO
Ecologistics is hosting the annual Central Coast Bioneers Conference as a two-day event at the Octagon Barn in San Luis Obispo October 3 and 4. The conference, "Revolution from the Heart…
The Balcony Gardener: The Kombucha Bust
Photo by Aedrian Salazar By October, the balcony was a patchwork of endings and beginnings. Tomatoes, sun-tired on thinning vines, sagged under the weight of their final fruit. The…
Free Event Oct. 4 Celebrates “Writers Week”
Two poets, two authors and a screenwriter walk into a library. This may sound like the set-up to a bad joke, but the Coastal Dunes branch of the California Writers…