Golden Dreams
I’m at the bus stop. The one right outside the Bullpen bar in IB. Problem: last bus heading north to Coronado is gone. It’s after midnight. I’m broke. No way up the Silver Strand. And …
When I first got in touch with Multiver3e at the end of May, the group was still a sound healing trio. Jamie Shadowlight, Lindsey Roach, and Leah Lipson had by that point been doing events …
While Jude Kodama and I are sitting and drinking kombuchas in the sun on his Mt. Helix back porch, he draws my attention to one of the photos in the brown leather album — the …
Video:GOLDEN DREAMS: Peter King lives a cell-free lifeNew Zealand is nothing if not tech-forward. Early this year, it recorded 6.84 million cellular mobile connections. That’s 130.3 percent of the population (5.124 million people.) But don’t …
Could New Zealand ever be the happiest nation on earth for insects, mushrooms, plants, and animals — as well as people? I’m curious as to the answer, because down here in the less-populated South Island, …
Video:GOLDEN DREAMS: Steen Rasmussen is banking on biochar“Biochar!” says Steen out of the blue.“Say what?” says Erik.Steen Rasmussen and I are hooped over the bar at McP’s Irish Pub in Coronado with my friend Erik …
The death of a neighbor ended an era on our peaceful street. For sale signs are not allowed in La Jolla, but news spread fast of the sale: $2,175,000 for the 3 bed, 2 bath …
“I keep coming back,” says the elderly lady with the walker-wheeler, Lupita. “I’ve been coming here for forty years.”“That’s more than I can say,” says Israel. Izzy. He’s sitting at 90 degrees from Lupita in …
Video:GOLDEN DREAMS: Luke Fink, a drifter headed for homeI meet him at LAX, at one of those tables where you go to charge your iPhone. He’s watching video of cars hurling themselves around bends in …
His watery eyes are open, but they don’t blink. He’s spreadeagled on his cushion at the foot of Papa Joe’s stool, his nose and mouth splayed over his black and yellowish toenails.“It’s his last night,” …
Video:GOLDEN DREAMS: SD’s Fringe Festival includes award-winning New Zealand act The Only Bones ProjectWhen I hear Fringe Festival, I think of Scotland’s Edinburgh. Its Fringe Festival is as famous as its mainstream one, and it …
Recently, a much-shared Facebook post by the Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary about a study conducted by their rattlesnake expert Cale Morris caught my attention. Morris used a boot and pant leg on a stick to tread …
Given the recent tragic event south of Ensenada at a popular surf spot near Puerto Santo Tomas, there has been quite a bit of rhetoric flying in the press and on social media about camping …
“It’s a very trending hobby right now,” says David Caywood-Hernandez. I have spotted him at a 901 bus stop, crocheting away at something pink and aquamarine and woolly. He’s poking a single hooked needle into …
This is scary. I’m here at the April 6th San Diego Writers Festival, a modest gathering that people are starting to take seriously: the organizers were able to promise “90 speakers at 40 events” all …
Video:Famed SEAL’s daughter makes a show out of her crazy hobbySome exotic goings-on at Danny’s Palm Bar on Orange Avenue in Coronado. A girl dances on the bar top, waving live flames about herself. Suddenly, …