These past 365 days are going to linger in my memory, probably forever. It was a cycle of surprise, of risk, of big challenges and big...

  Conjure, if you will, the twang and deep throated rumble of a four-stringed biwa lute, accompanied by the tense v...

When the first Japanese immigrant laborers arrived in rural Fresno County in 1900, they cultivated the sandy loam and hardpan lands border...

Just when I was pretty might resigned to the idea that the move from Los Angeles back to the Bay Area (and correlating temporary displacem...

2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the cultural institution that truly built my career, the amazing Heyday — publishers of books about ...

Overcast winter day in Los Angeles, and the light on the kitchen table— my preferred place to work— is an ashy gray. Surprisingly, it is a q...

All along the road, through thunderstorms in Oklahoma, the high grasses of Texas, voluptuous clouds of New Mexico, dry desert winds in Arizo...