by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 13, 2012 | photographs, Politics, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Nevada City, California For many years now, residents of Nevada City have understood that people can save a river. Lately, California budget assaults on Yuba River State Parks have spearheaded a new campaign of activism; local students have been gathering signatures...
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 | Sep 9, 2011 | Education, Essays, Polemics, Politics, Uncategorized |
“In every culture in decline, the watchful ones among the slaves know that all that is genuine will be scorned or conned or cast away.” Joni Mitchell Recently, this blurb has been circulating Facebook: “As a child I saw Tarzan almost naked, Cinderella arrived...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Aug 8, 2011 | poetry, Politics |
I’ve just taken three months away from my desk as I moved the farm and office and settled in. This morning is my first morning back at my desk. To mark the occasion, here is a poem I wrote over 20 years ago. It’s been bubbling up in my mind these past...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 30, 2011 | Essays, Politics |
thinking of my dad today….this essay is from the archives My father died six days after the eleventh of September, 2001, and he was well enough for most of those days to glimpse the television, which for some horrible reason they encouraged him to watch. He...
