What’s Your Favorite Opening to a Book?

This Tuesday night at the first of our weekly Amigo Road Book Club meetings, here at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, we compared the first lines of “Holy Toledo,” Ken Korach’s book on Renaissance Man Bill King (that’s his painting to the left), to some of the great openings in world literature. Our conclusion: Ken’s opening compares quite nicely! “Robert Cohn was once …

The Amigo Road Book Club

If you love books, come join Steve every Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods for the Amigo Road Book Club, a book club with a twist. Not only will we read books together and discuss them, but we’ll also invite you to bring in samples of your own writing to read aloud to the group …

look who’s pregnant!

Dagmar and Butterfingers are! If you look closely, you can see that their bellies are getting rounder and rounder. Goats are pregnant for about 150 days – between 5 and 6 months. In the case of Dagmar and Butterfingers that means that they will be pregnant for almost three months longer. Since they both crossed paths with the same handsome …

wild cats

Our cats have arrived! Wait, there are.. one… two… three! But beware: These are not the kind of fur balls you want to cuddle!  Unfortunately, many cats (and other animals) are not lucky enough to be born into this life with a loving home and caretaker. Project Purr, a non-profit organization based in Santa Cruz, rescues many feral cats from …