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I’m Cancelling Social Media
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I never thought I would say this, but I need to get a native plant guide for New York City. The expanding parks of the Big Apple are becoming a refuge for native flora.
A DESERT RIVER SERENADE
Seqouia sempervirens is an ancient species that has survived for millennia, it has even survived modern California, it may even survive climate change. I don’t want to minimize the threat caused by the CZU lightning complex fire in the Santa Cruz mountains and Big Basin Redwood State Park. I do want to offer some hope …
Continue reading "There’s hope for Big Basin: the amazing fire adaptations of the coast redwood"
I broke something the other day. I was rummaging through a box of memories (photos, tchotchkes). I was searching for a photo album in anticipation, or more accurately, dread, of a Zoom Reunion of a year abroad program on Kibbutz some 40 years ago. As I was pulling the album out of the box, something …
After so many weeks of life being led in a virtual world, I wonder how everyone is feeling about it. I for one have had enough.
I’m going on a Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram lockup which I fear is going to be harder than the infrequent liquor lockups I use to go on when I was a bartender (note to self, get a hold of AOC and compare notes). I’ve been on social media way too much, I’ve posted way too …
My Mother, Margalit Beizer, before the May 1940 invasion of Belgium. On יומ הזיכרון לשואה תש״פ (Holocaust Remembrance Day in the year 5780) I bear witness. My mother, Margalit bat Mechel v Esther ז״ל with her parents and two younger brothers, fled the invading Germans from Belgium to Dunkirk, following the retreating French and English. …
Trump was in the Coachella Valley in Southern California today with Larry Ellison who was hosting a fundraiser for POTUS at Porcupine Creek, the country club he owns in Rancho Mirage. Ellison is a co-founder, Executive Chairman, and Chief Technology Officer of Redwood City based tech giant Oracle. Ellison’s support for Trump is causing some …
Families strolling, homeless camping, a drunk Santa dancing. It's Christmas day, 2019 in the City of Angels.