by beachraven | Feb 26, 2022
Cannery Row, Monterey, California It started with a feeling. I don’t know if I can describe it, but I understand it when I feel it. It’s made up of bits and pieces of an old story or a memory, a flash from my childhood made current by recent thoughts. It has...
by beachraven | Feb 12, 2022
Veteran’s Park, Monterey, California There are 185 wooden steps up the Stairway to Heaven to the Huckleberry Hill Nature Preserve. Giant Monterey Pines surround them, and the air that drifts off the bay is fresh and invigorating. Like steps in places like...
by beachraven | Feb 4, 2022
Sunrise, Monterey, California The unemployment office sent me to a place called Mecanex Corporation, a factory that made parts for long-haul diesel trucks among other things. My job was in the plastics department running an injection molder. It took them two...
