RovinCrone

When I was working or going to school, this was my favorite part of the day, when all the world seemed dark and still. I’d make a cu...

When I was in college in the 1950s all the wealthy girls, especially those in sororities, wore cashmere sweaters. Some of the more ob...

In 1970 futurist Alvin Toffler wrote the blockbuster Future Shock , in which he predicted that the pressures of accelerating change fro...

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 ...