My column appearing then on Fridays in the Benicia Herald since Xmas 2008…
©Peter Bray, Benicia, CA all rights reserved…

1. Dec. 25, 2008 Riding the Benicia Ferry
2. Jan. 1, 2009 What’s In a Name (The A Cappella Handyman)
3. Jan. 8, 2009 All This Jazz About Poetry
4. January 16, 2009 You Can Do it America…(About Unemployment)
5. January 23, 2009 Get Down to Business
6. January 30, 2009 Next Friday’s Column
7. February 6, 2009 Plan B
8. February 13, 2009 Obvious Child
9. February 20, 2009 The 600-Wing Poetry Cafe
10. February 27, 2009 Brighter Than A Raccoon
11. March 6, 2009 A Passion for Something
12. March 13, 2009 Concert In My Head
13. March 20, 2009 What If Herb Caen Wrote This Column
14. March 27, 2009 The Dumpman Cometh
15. April 3, 2009 Trains of Parallel Thought
16. April 10, 2009 Whacko Cats
17. April 17, 2009 ME-131, A & B
18. April 24, 2009 Two For the Price of One
19. May 1, 2009 Barnum & Bailey and Rocket Science
20. May 8, 2009 Working on a Novel: Two Trains Coming
21. May 15, 2009 This Could Be Saipan
22. May 22, 2009 Airbags!
23. May 29, 2009 Outfitting The Red Wasp
24. June 5, 2009 Loose Wire From Planet X
25. June 19, 2009 Jail Break Harry!
26. June 26, 2009 Saving The Lido!
27. July 3, 2009 Taproot & Aniseweed
28. July 10, 2009 How The Squirrel Jumps
29. July 17, 2009 On the Squirrel Highway
30. July 24, 2009 Potpourri
31. July 31, 2009 Launch Station, Photinia
32. August 7, 2009 How to Make Hands
33. August 14, 2009 Adult Swimming, 75¢
34. August 21, 2009 Early Adventures in Corporateville
35. August 28, 2009 Corporateville, Part 2
36. September 4, 2009 Bird Tricks
37. September 11, 2009 Under The Tundra
38. September 18, 2009 Owning a BAD Ford
39. September 25, 2009 Building a ’32 Ford
40. October 2, 2009 The ’36 LaSalle
41. October 9, 2009 Building a Cat House
42. October 16, 2009 Dylan at the Greek
43. October 23, 2009 Olaf’s Hot Picks
44. October 30, 2009 Halloween Reprise!
45. November 6, 2009 Toilets are Talking
46. November 13, 2009 Olaf’s Got The Blues
47. November 20, 2009 E-mail from Olaf
48. November 27, 2009 Three Stitches Later
49. December 4, 2009 Pirate Bill
50. December 11, 2009 Hot Night at The Naked Oyster
51. December 18, 2009 Cinco Baloop
52. December 25, 2009 52 Fridays
53. January 1, 2010 Rudy and the Cosmic Fence & Gate
54. January 8, 2010 County Line(s), 2010
55. January 15, 2010 In a Digital Forest
56. January 22, 2010 In a Quince Corner
57. January 29, 2010 Design, Blogging, and PhotoShop
58. February 5, 2010 Shallots and Cognac
59. February 12, 2010 Hunkering Down (With Ugly Gloves)
60. February 19, 2010 Crohn’s Disease (An Update)
61. February 26, 2010 What’s In A Logo
62. March 5, 2010 Four On A Friday
63. March 12, 2010 Songs for a Rainy Day
64. March 19, 2010 Morning Ramble
65. March 26, 2010 Home for a Feral Cat
66. April 2, 2010 Gardener in the Promised Land
67. April 9, 2010 Manic Bananas
68. April 16, 2010 16th Anniversary
69. April 23, 2010 Trailer Park Musical
70. April 30, 2010 Hum Betty (Good Fiction)
71. May 7, 2010 Crohn’s Update 2
72. May 14, 2010 In the Beginning (What does a poet do?)
73. May 21, 2010 Bob Shelby’s Greatest Hits
74. May 28, 2010 Brown Eyes Blue (The art of songwriting)
75. June 4, 2010 I Buy Jam
76. June 11, 2010 Gigs and the Dance
77.  June 18, 2010 Alley Groomer
78.  June 25, 2010 Flying Pterodactyls
79. July 2, 2010 Poetry and Prose
80. July 9, 2010 Riding on a Float
81. July 16, 2010 Med School Online
82.  July 23, 2010 (Editor’s Vacation)
83.  July 30, 2010 A New Paper
84.  August 6, 2010 Things to Fix
85.  August 13, 2010 How To Write a Song
86.  August 20, 2010 Blank Space
87.  August 27, 2010 Poetry Circus
88.  Sept. 3, 2010 Andy Rooney 2
89.  Sept. 10, 2010 After Berkeley
90.  Sept. 17, 2010 Metaphysical Hardware Store
91.  Sept. 24, 2010 Bill The Lizard
92.  October 1, 2010 Man Cave
93.  October 8, 2010 Returning to Berkeley
94.  October 15, 2010 Eastside/At Home
95.  October 22, 2010 Fences and
96.  October 29, 2010 Walking to Denmark
97.  November 5, 2010  Write My Gigabytes
98.  November 12, 2010 Writing the Chorus
99.  November 19, 2010  Tinker’s Dam
100.  November 26, 2010 Living with an Artist
101. December 3, 2010 Hammer Drill
102. December 10, 2010  Number 101
103. December 17, 2010  Three New Softwares
104. December 24, 2010 Happy Holidays
105. December 31, 2010  One Slipper
106. January 7, 2011 Pesky and Notorious
107.  January 14, 2011 Chapbook Education
108.  January 21, 2011 Brothers’ Art
109. January 28, 2011 Sharpening Pencils

Peter Bray lives, works, and writes in Benicia
and has written this column since 2008.

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