Author: Roger

A Crying Incident at Yosemite (Chumash Style)

Yosemite National Park is one of the most beautiful places on earth. To see its meadows, rivers, and waterfalls is a great thrill for every nature lover . . . As beautiful as it is, there is one way in which its beauty seems to multiply upon itself—to visit the park with someone you love.

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A Shift in the Wind

It was like waking in the middle of a nightmare, confused, dazed, unable to tell the real from the unreal. My family had a house in Oakland situated on Clemens Road which one reaches by traveling up Park Boulevard; to continue the route takes one into the rolling hills through which Highway 13 runs.

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A Dark and Stormy Night

It was rapidly becoming “a dark and stormy night” as I began to brake for real, having made up my mind “to go for broke” and take my chances on a rainy roll of the dice . . .
“And I, alone, have survived to tell thee” -Moby Dick

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The Dog and the Wolf

It is a display of religious zealotry that contributes mightily to the moderate-to-severe retardation of true intellectual progress and cultural liberation for the human race taken in its entirety . . . . Facts are stubborn things and cannot be “wished” or “disbelieved” away. Grandpa Dog may be older than Pup but it doesn’t mean he’s right!

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