RovinCrone

My last post praised the merits of my Nook e-reader--the portability, large memory, and so on. I have been reading a fascinating novel, Red ...

A couple of years ago I bought a Nook e-reader from Barnes &Noble. This has opened up a new world of RV reading—partly good, partly...

For us, it was one of those serendipitous finds. Having a serious problem with the RV in Calgary and unable to find a Canadian repair shop...

For the past several years I have happily lived on the forested west slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in northern California. At this ...

Passing through our town, Highway 50 stretches west about fifty miles to Sacramento, and east about three thousand miles to Ocean Ci...

Last week my book club read the debut novel Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng. Ng recounts the story of Lydia, a Chinese-American...

I am reposting this blog, which I wrote in 2012, because of the importance of the topic. I think my conclusion about reaching out for help ...

For the past couple of years, we have had terrifying wildfires in northern California. Thousands of people either lost their homes in...

Though I am not a very good cook, many years ago I learned to roast a turkey and provide a Thanksgiving feast with all the fixin’s.  In s...

Coastal fog from the Pacific Ocean can be romantic and mysterious. Many times I have walked the streets of San Francisco at night, when fo...