Health – Healthcare
- June 24, 2024
Sunset the Subsidies
My brother- and sister-in-law had a great meal arrangement. Greg is an amateur gourmet chef. They love to entertain, which…
- April 22, 2024
The Splendor of Biking Santa Barbara
Call me provincial, but I believe the Gibraltar Road bike ride stacks up well against any road ride in the…
- April 8, 2024
CDC in The Age of Skepticism
I lost my Covirginity last month. After four years of caution and a scant few months after my eighth or…
- July 13, 2020
Plastic Free July
The ubiquity of plastics made its greatest impression on me five years ago on a visit to Easter Island. Twenty-one…
- June 1, 2020
Triple Emergencies II — An Illustration
Last column, I wrote about the co-incident and related global emergencies of pandemics, climate change, and biodiversity loss. A friend…
- May 18, 2020
Triple Emergencies
An emergency is typically an acute, awful event. Locally, we’ve reserved the term for wildfires, debris flows, and occasional earthquakes.…