by Carolyn M. Crane | Nov 6, 2011 | Abbey Country, Community, Essays, Farming, Mining, Polemics, Politics, Sustainability |
It has been a typical couple weeks on Facebook in the land of leftie politics. Whether I am visiting the group for Save The Scenic Santa Ritas down in Abbey Country, or reading a post from a local food activist here in Nevada City, or perusing the many leftie slogans...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Oct 20, 2011 | Community, Essays, Polemics, Politics |
Drunk Drivers I’m standing in the pediatric ICU at UC Med Center. I’m holding the hand of my ten year old nephew. His hand is lifeless, the nurse tells me, because they gave him a paralyzing drug to keep him still. Common practice with a brain injury, she says. ...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 23, 2011 | Abbey Country, Education, Sustainability |
Photographs from Abbey Country “It pleases me, loving rivers.” Raymond Carver The San Pedro River flows north from Mexico into southeastern Arizona. It is one of the last free flowing rivers in the Southwest. At the San Pedro River Riparian National Conservation...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 20, 2011 | Abbey Country, Community, Farmers Markets, Sustainability |
Twenty years ago, my parents moved from the Sierra–near where I still call home–to a town called Sierra Vista in southeastern Arizona, near the Mexican border. For two decades I’ve visited–first them– and then just Mom after my dad...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 18, 2011 | Community, Education
Each year for fourteen years now, Dale and Diane Jacobson have hosted the Medieval Games at their dude ranch just outside Nevada City. Last May 13, over two hundred sixth graders from Waldorf or Waldorf-inspired schools attend the games, from as far away as Chico,...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Apr 15, 2011 | Community, poetry, Uncategorized |
from the archives: a poem from the 1980s–the theme still “animates my life”, as Utah used to like to say. Hungry for Brothers I long for that man in my periphery: elusive on his way to shoot hoops or neck with his girl (I know from the way his...
