PS: "mandatorily forced" feels redundant.

Limestone plus Angry Grandpa?

California's Bears poke back.

Is this one of those William Carlos Williams-style poems?

Let's not go accusing late-date American Capitalism of anything untoward, for goodness gracious. I mean, really. Sheesh.

I started out thinking this note was going to be about hypens

Pleased to see a life-long Californian reading Willa Cather.

McPhee knows that the rain is next. And then the debris.

And, now that I think of it, I'll bet Sandy Frazier would tell funny stories about all the vans he has owned. He'd be number three.

Is Helen Reddy's back catalogue the best van music? I think it probably is. Pity she can't join us; I think she and Sandy would enjoy each other's company.

If S.E. Rogie hadn't been dead for three decades, I would say he and Susan Orlean would be the ideal foundation for a fondue party.

All the wine would be chasselas. All the music from Sierra Leone.

Okay, the second part of that feels, in retrospect, unnecessarily cruel. Like maybe it takes away from rest of it.

Now I feel kind of guilty.