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- Wet California
- Pastor to Astronaut – Who is the Best Californian?
- Standing Proud in a Place of Beauty and Challenge
- 1969
- California Self Centered Softies
- Three Wise Men came from the East and California was Forever Changed
- San Francisco Songs and Sports
- Beyond the Birdbath: Francis and Other Animals
- Fashion Advice from St. Francis
- Is Francis the Saint of Peace?
- Who Are My Family?
- Deathbeds, Tombs, Relics: Venerating Saints
- Francis, Clare and the Big Fat Wet Nipple
- For All The Saints
- From Shipwreck to Lifeboat
- Hurricane, Typhoon, Cyclone, Maelstrom, Whirlpool, Vortex
- Not Very Far Offshore
- The Sea, The Sea
- To the Lighthouse
- The Storm
- The Sea Runners
- “All the Life-Giving Waters of the World”
- Sea Wolf by Jack London
- The Old Man and The Sea
- Ocean Fiction II: The Essex Serpent
- Women Diving
- Clean Waterways and Healthy Oceans
- Marching
- Ran, Norse Ocean Goddess
- Te-Fiti, Pacific Ocean Goddess
- Secrets I Have
- Ocean Deities
- Gathering of the Waters
- Submerged Cultural Resources
- The Sanctuary and The Highways
- Diving Into the Sanctuary
- What’s at Stake?
- Can We Manage the Ocean?
- Don Pachico Mayoral and Los Ballenas Amistosos
- “If Life Gets Too Hard, There’s Always the Ocean”
- Sandcastle Theologian
- Cabin Boy to Poet Laureate
- Monterey Pirates
- The Big Sur Monks
- Otter Spotters
- They Took Me Out on the Water
- Doris’ 50 Wet Daughters
- Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
- Scientists of Mystery: Rachel Carson and William Beebe
- Monet Painting by the Sea
- Paddle-Out With St. Jack
- Captain Cousteau, War Hero
- The Two Challenger Expeditions: Sea and Sky
- Inextricably Interconnected
- Sea Stars and Beetles, Vast and Varied
- As I Live and Breath
- You Don’t Need a Weatherman……
- Love Me Like a Rock
- One Big Ocean
- Who Built This Road?
- Down the Aisle
- Voltaire at the Women’s March
- Walking from 2016 to 2017
- A Walk around the Block
- Phil’s Camino
- Betwixt and Between
- Packing for Your Pilgrimage
- The Solitary Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Parade
- Joan and Margery Go for a Walk
- Walking Fast, Walking Slow
- Walking a New Path
- On the Road Again
- Moving Directions
- Raze and Raise
- Nests
- 1712 Euclid Ave.
- Solid and Shaky Art Museums
- Spirit of Place
- Shopping for Building Materials
- Things That Go Bump in the Night
- Classrooms
- On the Field and In the Stands
- Jesus the Carpenter
- The (Other) Animals that Live in My House
- Tree Houses
- What Kind of Building Would You Be?
- Fast or Fussy
- McMansions
- If Your House Burns Down
- Looking East
- Stop at the Pub on Your Way to Saving the World
- What Belongs Near the Altar?
- Renting and Owning
- No Room in the Inn?
- Fictional Houses
- Chimneys
- Locking the Front Door
- Measuring Tape and Tape Measures
- Disaster Planning and Penguins
- Heating and Cooling
- Two Large White Buildings
- Kitchen Table and Dining Room Table
- Nest and Niche
- Jesus the Camper
- Wind Eye: The Domestic Anatomy of Windows
- Staring at Bridges
- Cryptic Sound
- Do Animals Use Tools?
- Need A House? Call Ms. Mouse!
- Remodeling
- 855 Ardmore Ave, Akron, Ohio
- Two Hated Buildings We Love to See
- Gird, Girdle, Girder
- It's Why We Live Here
- And God Created Pews
- Cementing Our Lives
- Ascending and Descending
- When Buildings Change
- Crow Bar
- Vestibule
- Building Blocks
- Bully Pulpit
- Thank You, Carl and Charlie
- Judge Not
- Selma
- Some American Responses to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
- We’re a Little Lost Here in America
- Just Say Know: When Should Kids be Allowed to Drink and Drug?
- “Every Man Needs to Acquire Habits of Self-Help”
- “What American Needs is a Good Strong Drink”
- Yosemite Wonderers and Wanderers
- I Have Been to the Mountaintop
- Ten Thousand Years: Yosemite Poetry
- Two Yosemite Artists: Chiura Obata and Ansel Adams
- Untrammeled
- John Muir, Tramp and Mountain Man
- Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs: Path Clearing and Strips of Chaos
- “Women Who Build:” Julia Morgan
- Form Follows Function: Louis Sullivan and the Skyscraper
- "This Beautiful Art": Jefferson's Public Architecture
- American Builders and Building
- Will You Sign My Petition?
- We’re Here, We’re Assembling, Get Used to It
- Big Fat Liar
- Morning After Pills and Peyote Pipes
- 45 Words and the Sidewalk
- It’s Never Not Complicated, but There’s Always a Choice
- “Of Mice and Men” in Aachen
- Remembrance Tourism
- Southern Baptists to the Progressive Christians: We Support Your Right to Preach Heresy
- The Grapes of Wrath at 75
- Marathons: Born to Run
- Outlaw Country
- US Supreme Court: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Level Playing Field
- American’s Two Favorite Pastimes: Sports and Money
- Kathy, I’m Lost: Some Thoughts About Bus Trips
- Taste of Her Own Medicine
- Do Americans love or hate science?
- Be Well, Do Good Work, and Keep in Touch
- What the President Can and Can’t Do: Phones and Pens and Kings
- Why the Coke Ad is Good for America
- It Was 50 Years Ago Today
- Why I Dislike the Google Buses
- Palo Colorado
- MLK: “I Accept…. and I Refuse to Accept…”
- They Shall Beat Their Swords into…..Mickey Mouse
- First Night
- American Hustle: Rotten and Delicious
- Notable 2013 Deaths: Jeanne Manford
- American Santa
- Thanksgiving
- John F. Kennedy on Art: Not a Form of Propaganda, but a Form of Truth
- Election Day 2013
- Irene, Navajo Guide
- The Big Canyon
- Read Your Way Across the USA
- Christian Dominionism Shuts Down the US Government
- Senate Chaplain Calls Lawmakers Unreasonable and Proud
- How to Grade the Los Angeles Students who Hacked School Computers?
- College Newspaper Scores Big Story
- Please Go to Preschool So I Can Die Happy
- Don’t Know Much About History…..
- Walking for Freedom: John Lewis
- Johnny Appleseed
- Three Cross Country Trips, 1903-2013
- The Mayor’s Office
- Poor Plainfield
- Two Tough Cities: Detroit and New Orleans
- Prisonville USA, Population 2.2 Million
- The Supreme Court is for the Birds
- The San Diego-Tijuana Conurbation
- Rocky Mountain High: Denver Up In Smoke
- On the Road Again: Atlanta
- Truth Warriors: Daniel Ellsberg, Karen Silkwood, Bradley Manning and Glenn Greenwald
- Graduation Speeches: Follow Your Dreams and All That Crap
- Moccasins on the Ground
- Would Jesus Go to a Conference in Reno or Las Vegas?
- St. Joan of the Arches: McDonald’s Heir Super-sizes Liberal Causes
- Beautiful Day in the Boston Neighborhood
- As American As Edgar Allan Poe
- All-American Boys: Abused, Medicated, Fat
- My Income Tax and Bob
- Holy Week at the Supreme Court
- Be True to Your School
- Drones and Wacko-Birds
- Two Americans Stars on the Lower East Side
- Americans Dancing in the Streets: Part II
- Dragons, Drinking, Dancing: US Party Week
- Representative Tammy Duckworth and her Bar Brawl
- A Church, A Bridge, A Bar: Freedom Places
- Richard Nixon and the Whales
- King and Roe: Two Religious Holidays
- Shootout at the Constitutional Corral
- A History of the World in 5 American Objects
- Much Worse Things to Believe In
- American Lament
- Abraham Lincoln in Jerusalem
- What is Art?: Nureyev’s Sequins
- The Sandy Scourge
- Election Maps: 50 Shades of Purple
- Crying about the Election
- Should I Vote for Dave or Marc?
- Pop Quiz: Election Vocabulary and Quotations
- There’s a Place for Us
- That’s Debatable
- I Feel The Earth Move
- By the Numbers
- Ask Not
- All American Clint
- Madame Perkins has been in labor for eight years, but...
- Take a Sad Song and Make it Better:Messing Around with National Anthems
- Liars and Cheats
- Two Faces of America: Stranger or Traveler
- Sarcastic and Hopeful
- Old Man River
- America’s National Pastime: Justice?
- The American Dream Shared, Temporarily, with 800,000 Young “Aliens”
- Dry and Disputed
- A Helluva Town
- Question: How Many Deaths Will It Take Till He Knows?
- American Girls: Dolls and Scouts
- Should All Americans Have the Same Civil Rights?
- Today a Great American Died
- The Little House
- Farewell to Manzanar
- E.T. Phone Home
- The American Habitat: From Sea to Shining Sea
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