Reis Valley and Mudville

 About thirty years ago, when I was at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, I took an environmental law class. At the end of the class we had to write ...

January 2023 will go down in the record books as one of the stormiest, snowiest, and rainiest months for many parts of California. As of Jan...

The land used to be inhabited. People lived some or all of the year in almost every place in California, with exceptions of extreme high ele...

Going through old papers, we had another family history breakthrough. Enough new information to make me want to revise former posts (see To ...

It usually is a simple process to file our federal taxes each year, copying more or less what we did the previous year. Free Fillable Forms ...

About six years ago, I wrote a blog post called "Bob's Trees," after one day, my neighbor Bob told me about the trees near his...

100 years ago this weekend my dad was born. The end of World War I and the end of the pandemic were recent memories, and the Roaring Twentie...