My cover story on The Clock of the Long Now is running in this week’s Pacific Sun. Scientists are creating a clock that will be installed in a mountain in Nevada. There, it will quietly tick away the days, years, centuries and finally millennia for the next 10,000 years.
Last June, I went to the 2006 Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship at Roshambo Winery in Healdsburg. You can read my write-up of the event in the wonderful new issue of Imbibe Magazine. They also published some pictures I took of the event. Go pick up a copy.
It may be too late to mention this, but I have two articles out this week that you can probably still pick up. One is a restaurant review in the North Bay Bohemian of Romeo’s Pizza in Petaluma. I gave an overall positive review.
Secondly, I wrote an article on National Forgiveness Day for the Pacific Sun. I interviewed Michael Berg, whose son Nick was beheaded by Muslim radicals in Iraq. Michael is working hard on forgiving not only the people who killed his son, but the Bush Administration for using his son’s name to promote a war that Michael is against. It was very interesting listening to his thoughts on forgiveness. Check the article out if you get a chance.
I am back. I will post pictures of our fabulous trip to Canada later this week. In the meantime, I forgot to mention I have a cover story in the most recent Pacific Sun.
From 1910-1940, Chinese immigrants were held at the immigration station on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay. Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, these immigrants were confined in prison-like conditions from anywhere to a few days to a few years while they waited to find out whether or not they could enter the U.S. With nothing else to do, the Chinese began writing poetry on the walls of the immigration station, which the state park department is now attempting to restore. Some of the poems are quite poignant. This was my favorite:
The silvery red shirt is half covered with dust
A flickering lamp keeps this body company.
I am like pear blossoms which have already fallen;
Pity the bare branches during the late spring.
Read more about this part of our history in my article.
My article on Lyme disease, which ran in the North Bay Bohemian, was reprinted in Metro Silicon Valley. I guess the article is getting quite a bit of positive feedback from Lyme disease sufferers. It’s always nice to know people like your work.
In other news, Kyle and I are going to Seattle for the next five days to visit his Dad. From there, we are going up to Victoria BC, which I have always wanted to see. Canada, ho!
In keeping with the wedding theme, my article on wedding tourism was published in the June issue of North Bay Biz Magazine. As anyone who has been through one knows, weddings are big business. This article looks at the financial impact of weddings in Sonoma, Napa, and Marin counties.