Journalist Michael Lester has traveled the globe and self-published guidebooks from such destinations as Israel, Jordan, Panama, Scandinavia, New England; and Mallorca, Spain. For his newest travelogue, Lester set his sights on his own backyard: Benicia. “Dispatch from Benicia” goes beyond listing sites for tourists. It captures the character, history and geography of the town […]
Mrs. B’s Blather: Have you begun your descent into binge watching?
I found out about binge watching somewhere in the middle of my discovering the plethora of made-for-TV movies. I had only, naive me, known of the word bingeing when it came to food. Checking the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries I learned that bingeing is defined as a short period devoted to indulging in an activity […]
A Different Drummer: The inevitable showdown
Santa Claus walked into Amazon headquarters one day and rang the service bell. “Where’s Jeff?” he yelled. “Mr. Bezos is in a meeting, eh, sir, and cannot be bothered,” said Rehnquist, the wide-eyed, nearly speechless, young, thin, clean-shaved, hairless look-alike assistant from behind a cluttered desk where he was filling out a requisition form for […]