Archive for September, 2009
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
News of the week reported through pictures
From 1920 to 1991, The New York Daily News called itself “New York’s Picture Paper” because it used photographs with captions rather than articles to report a disproportionate amount of the news. In that spirit, this blog will now try out a Point Reyes Station Picture Posting. While carpenter Charlie Morgan was walking out my [...]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Update on injured ad manager of West Marin Citizen; benefit planned; and will there be a race?
Last Thursday when I dropped by Linda Petersen’s temporary digs, Tim Weed and Debbie Daly were entertaining the recuperating crash victim with a mix of country and folk music. The Point Reyes Station couple are among many people who have stepped forward to help Linda, ad manager of The West Marin Citizen, since her horrific [...]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Startling weather; amazing stepdaughters
Wasn’t that one heck of a thunder-and-lightning storm that hit here at 5:45 a.m. Saturday? Around the San Francisco Bay Area, the lightning started at least 20 fires and blacked out nearly 50,000 homes and businesses, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. In West Marin, the lightning momentarily blacked out a few homes and turned on [...]
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Talented-animal tales
Four years ago while I still published The Point Reyes Light, readers on their own gave birth to a new genre of first-person writing, Tall Tales of Intelligent Dogs. The genre faded shortly before the grand old newspaper changed ownership, but the tales have now inspired me to try replicating with wildlife around my cabin [...]
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Saga of The West Marin Citizen ad manager’s recovery spreads around the globe — not always accurately
Linda Petersen in a wheelchair at North Beach Aug. 23, the day after she came home to West Marin. (Photo by her daughter Saskia van der Wal) It’s been fascinating to watch the story of Linda Petersen’s car wreck, surgery, hospitalization, and homecoming spread around the globe. Not only have her friends and relatives overseas [...]
