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Most often I am inspired by nature, whether it be visually as an artist, or verbally as a writer. Last summer, with simple watercolors and ink, before the treacherous fire episodes scourged the Napa Valley and its surrounds, with feeble brushes and watered down cakes of paint I painted abstractions of the nearby Mayacamas Mountains…

THE MIRACLE MATTRESS   My friend Mary mentioned she needed a new mattress. It just so happened I was getting rid of mine. “It’s too hard,” I told her. “Take it.”  Ten days later Mary borrowed a truck and drove 350 miles to the Bay Area to pick it up.” Looking like a gigantic piece…

At Westward Beach, Nelson Mandela’s face is posted on perhaps the only phone booth left standing within miles. The drawing is iconic guerilla artist Robbie Conal: an ink portrait of a noted public figure. But wait, this is not the usual Conal portrait of a familiar corrupt global leader, nor does it express the usual…