Our last view of the SS Independence — taken from the Golden Gate Bridge, being towed like a broken soul, on its way to be broken down on the beaches of Alang, India.

As an aside: I contacted three different news organizations a full week before the ship was to be leaving. Not a single one […]

The front wall of Stephens Meat Products in San Jose, California. This building no longer exists.
There was a time in our history in which a cut of meat, or links of sausage didn’t come from a chain supermarket. Meat wasn’t transported pre-cut, across the country, via refrigerated trains. There was a local […]

This image of the Ventura Beaches was taken from the Ventura Pier at night. Coincidentally, this was the brightest moon of the decade. Unfortunately, the bright moon was blocked out by a wildfire. The pier has a long history, dating back to 1872 (photo copyright Jon Haeber).
For Thanksgiving, I migrated south to Ventura to […]