Wed 5 Dec 2007
Table of Contents
Posted by dave under Uncategorized
Entries are numbered in the order they were posted but by necessity are published in reverse order. The most recent postings (the highest numbers) begin below the Table of Contents while No. 1 is at the bottom of the final page.
To go directly to a story without scrolling, click on the highlighted phrase following the numbers.
Weekly postings are published on Thursdays.
1. Introduction to this site SparselySageAndTimely.com plus an account of orphaned fawns being released in Chileno Valley.
2. Point Reyes Light publisher Robert Plokin’s and his wife Lys Plotkin’s litigation
3. Nature’s Two Acres: A Point Reyes Station Photo Exhibit
4. Nature’s Two Acres Part II: Living dinosaurs actually found around my cabin
5. My background: Biographical information on newspaperman Dave Mitchell
6. Nature’s Two Acres Part III: Insectivores and Not
7. Nature’s Two Acres Part IV: Christmas turkeys & where the buck stopped *
8. Storm-caused fire razes Manka’s Lodge and Restaurant in Inverness
10. Light publisher Robert Plotkin allowed to hold onto some of his Ponzi-scheme ‘profits’
11. Nature’s Two Acres Part V: By Means of Water
12. Nature’s Two Acres Part VI: How Flashing Affects Wildlife
13. Nature’s Two Acres Part VII: Rats v. dishwashers
14. Marin supervisors refuse to tilt at McEvoy windmill
15. The Bush Administration at Point Reyes: Part I
16. The Bush Administration at Point Reyes Part II: Whatever happened to the Citizens Advisory Commission to the GGNRA & Point Reyes National Seashore?
17. Saying Yes to Change: A former Point Reyes Station innkeeper finds true joy by moving in with a working-class family in a poor neighborhood of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
19. Nature’s Two Acres Part VIII: ‘Mice & rats, and such small deer’
20. Nature’s Two Acres Part IX: Point Reyes Station’s blackbirds
21. Nature’s Two Acres Part X: ‘Nature Red in Tooth and Claw’
22. Former Point Reyes Light columnist John Grissim, the late pornographer Artie Mitchell, Brazilian President Lula and the advent of orgasmic diplomacy.
23. Nature’s Two Acres Part XI: The perky possum
24. Nature’s Two Acres Part XII: April showers ‘cruel’ with ‘no regrets’
25. Nature’s Two Acres Part XIII: ‘Who’s the Head Bull-Goose Loony Around Here?’
26. Marin’s hyper-defensive Sheriff Bob Doyle ’stays the course’ despite blunder and gets county government and others sued.
27. Nature’s Two Acres Part XIV: ‘The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.’
28. Nature’s Two Acres Part XV: ‘Among animals…one finds natural caricatures.’
29. Mermaids, cows, Horizon Cable, and Russia’s Internet war on Estonia
30. New newspaper to be published in West Marin
31. Nature’s Two Acres Part XVI: A gopher snake & other neighbors
32. Many fail to find Western Weekend livestock show; a new newpaper debuts in West Marin; The Point Reyes Light reports a former bookkeeper is in jail on embezzlement charges.
33. Sunday’s Western Weekend parade and barbecue
35. Inverness Park fire Friday razes art studio
36. Monday’s demonstration against The Point Reyes Light
37. Preventing fires at home while The Point Reyes Light feels the heat
38. The death of a salesman: Andrew Schultz
40. What we didn’t celebrate on the Fourth of July
41. 76-year-old Nick’s Cove reopens
48. Music, wildlife, and the cosmos
49. Congress sees through Point Reyes National Seashore claims
50. Watching the Point Reyes National Seashore obliterate cultural history
51. Quotes Worth Saving & the Inverness Fair
52. The KWMR/Love Field ‘Far West Fest’
53. ‘Possums,’ a sequel to the musical ‘Cats’
54. Truth becomes an endangered species at the Point Reyes National Seashore.
55. Language, politics & wildlife
56. Despite public-be-damned management, it’s still a beautiful park.
57. Nature’s Two Acres XVII: As seen by an old, almost-blind dog
58. Bolinas firehouse and clinic opening party Sunday
59. Paving Point Reyes Station’s main street at night
60. Vandals dump sewage at West Marin School
61. Point Reyes Station’s Hazel Martinelli celebrates 101st birthday with party at son’s deer camp
63. Tuesday’s Marin County Farm Bureau luncheon for politicos
64. White House Pool: a public park where management listens to the public
65. Nature’s Two Acres Part XVIII: Seasonal sightings
66. Ranching matriarch Hazel Martinelli dies at 101
67. One last warm weekend before the season of darkness
68. West Marin’s ‘Mac Guru’ leaving town — a friend with a knack for surviving
69. Coastal Post’s December issue to be its last, assistant editor says; publisher contradicts her
70. California photo book’s release celebrated with gala on Inverness Ridge
71. Ship hits Bay Bridge; spilled oil drifts out Golden Gate and mires birds on West Marin coast
72. Farm Bureau president quits; defends independence of wife who disagrees with his political position
73. Point Reyes Station pharmacist decries health-insurance practices
74. Nature’s Two Acres Part IXX: ‘Things that go bump in the night’
75. Being a Gypsy isn’t enough; KPFA fires host criticized for not being a ‘person of color’
76. Giving thanks for an abundant harvest
77. West Marin Community Thanksgiving Dinner celebrated in Point Reyes Station’s Dance Palace
78. Nature’s Two Acres Part XX: Where coyotes howl and raccoons roam free
79. Lessons to be learned from the oil spill
— Safire’s New Political Dictionary by William Safire
Random House, New York, 1993
