The Benicia Fullosopher More activities: Reserve the wedding chapel to get married or renew vows. Make use of the card room, Internet Café, jigsaw puzzle, board games, book clubs, multiple pools, gigantic water slides, or pool table (which is fun to watch stay level as the guests rock up and down with the ship). Watch […]
Mrs. B’s Blather: Are you thinking of buying a new car?
Beware! This is dangerous thinking. My sister and her husband thought of buying a new car and they will be picking up their high end self driving Tesla on June 9. Pat Oberdorf thought it might be time to buy a new car and she now owns a Chevy Volt, electric car. Marlene and Garland […]
Benicia Letters Once More: The Dare Taken
The following “letter” is part of the continuing series from the unpublished novel by James Garrett, “Benicia Letters Once More”. He does not plan to publish the book but instead is choosing to share the letters with the readers of the Benicia Herald. The letters continue the storyline of Garrett’s first novel “Benicia and Letters […]
Pat Toth-Smith: More than a year after the Valero flaring incident, are we safer?
A year after the May 5, 2017 Valero emergency shutdown and major flaring incident, and the subsequent release of more than 74,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide into the air, are we any safer in Benicia? Has the emergency backup electrical generation changed for the refinery since this incident? Should we stop worrying about future emergency […]
A Different Drummer: Pinfest Zinfest combined
Every May I ditch my wife and run off to Dixon alone for three days to play pinball machines. Not this year. She came with me this time. Why? Did she develop a sudden interest in playing pinball? Nope. I have yet to see her play a single game. Here’s why. The Pin-A-Go-Go pinball festival […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: To Boldly Fold
I have a friend that I admire His given name is Yuji His place of birth’s an island land It’s where you’ll find Mount Fuji We both share a love for art He studied it in school De Young displays old Yuji’s work I think that’s very cool His etchings are a sight to see […]
Voice of the Village: What is aging better? How do you do it?
By Lois Requist Recently, I attended the Northern California launch of Village Movement California. It was exciting to see and hear what is going on statewide. If you’ve followed the Village Movement, you may know that it started in Boston in 2001 and has spread across the country since. There are over 200 “virtual” villages […]
The A Cappella Handyman: Benevolent hearts?
What’s wrong with you people? Who returns to their high school or grammar school to waste their peers with an assault rifle meant to be an adversarial killing machine in the resource or imperial wars of the US? Who monitors the decaying mental health of social dropouts and makes sure their parents’ weapons vault is […]
ArchiTalk: How Venice got its Mojo
It’s been too long since I got to go to Europe, so I settled for watching A&E’s “The Miraculous Canals of Venice,” a forty minute documentary available on YouTube and also as “instant viewing” on Netflix. It’s a way to get a dose of Venezia without having to even get out of your chair. […]
Benicia Letters Once More: An Independent Female
The following “letter” is part of the continuing series from the unpublished novel by James Garrett, “Benicia Letters Once More”. He does not plan to publish the book but instead is choosing to share the letters with the readers of the Benicia Herald. The letters continue the storyline of Garrett’s first novel “Benicia and Letters […]