Monthly Archives: September 2019

  The Chevrolet plant at 73rdand MacAthur built trucks.  It dominated the neighborhood and the lives of those who lived there. The workers lived in small houses that crept up the slope above MacArthur. Charlie Hoefer and I shared rooms … Continue reading →

This afternoon it feels like Fall.  Sun but not hot, cool breeze. Soon it will be October. In the mountains at dusk the temperature will drop and the grass will crunch underfoot , frozen, and the late sun will be … Continue reading →

September.  Hot in a classroom today.  It was often hot in September and every teacher had a big fan. The windows in those rooms did not open all the way. I complained one day and several boys in my class … Continue reading →

So much is imaginary. Things going on inside my head, places, people, often people that have never existed. Like dreams, they are unspoken; some times these imaginary people speak, but no one hears them. There are scenes that happened in … Continue reading →

I wake at three o’clock in the morning.  I am wide awake.  I turn on the lamp above my head and reach for my reading glasses that lie on the bed beside me.  Then I open the book that lies … Continue reading →

A car show in Fairfax, the Parkade and Broadway closed off, shining restored cars being dusted by proud owners. There was my mother’s 1954 Chevrolet, a car I abandoned in the Tamalpais High School parking lot, the same blue and … Continue reading →

Galley proofs of Ghost Trout have arrived.  The first galley proofs I ever saw were proofs of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip Dick.  He came to my classroom to talk to my students, handed out copies of his books … Continue reading →

I have been re-reading the entries that I have posted on WordPress and I am struck by the fact that they are not only well written, but that they touch on moments that all of us share. It is a … Continue reading →

  Dog in a baby carriage, dog in a shoulder bag, small white dog on the bench, a big dog with paws on the sill of a passing truck, shaggy dog on a leash held by a woman too small … Continue reading →

Tomato soup with saltine crackers, cinnamon toast, macaroni and cheese, boiled hot dog on a bun, Swiss steak, French fries, pizza with pepperoni, breakfast on the road (eggs over easy, toast, sausage, hash browns and coffee), spaghetti and meatballs, potato … Continue reading →