Adventures of a Small Town Boy

My space to work out some of my most complicated, nagging thoughts, not to mention a meditative opportunity to reflect on and examine some o...

While walking in Oakdale, you might cross one person, someone you've likely never met before that likely lives just a block or two down ...

What is in a Place anyways? It's hard to say what any place is really about, so I'm not even going to try to do that here. I...

Summers   Oakdale summers are hot summers; we are not talking eighty to ninety degree warms days punctuating otherwise pleasant, breezy, c...

Rain in Oakdale brings a new and different kind of reassuring, if unanticipated calm, and especially now. For some time, California has been...

Dear Oakdale, Having returned recently from a scholarly stint in the bay, I was dismayed to find uprooted public benches, probing Lea...

A risk is a risk because it is a risk and not because it is not a risk. This is the way of the world. All actions are risks because they p...