Here’s another example why record stores are struggling to survive. I walk a couple of miles down Land Park Drive to Broadway, to Dimple Records, the local independent music store, excited to pick up the new Ryan Adams, Deerhunter and…
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It began innocently enough – all fun and games. While earning college credits as a staff photographer for the Sacramento State Hornet student newspaper in the late seventies, I wrote a letter to the media relations director of the Oakland…
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“And now we go to (insert name of local TV personality) reporting live from the scene.” We hear this every night on the evening news when covering a fire, accident, crime, meeting or other event. What I’m beginning to notice,…
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Older adults should become leaders of the environmental movement. Imagine the incongruity. The population with the least amount of remaining time on the planet would be those who care the most about humankind’s survival for generations to come. In this…
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It’s safe to say Pope Francis never aspired to be the subject of an essay on the Humble Sky blog. Then again, I never expected the Pope to speak my language. In pontificating about treatment of the elderly to a…
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