The Church of the Open Road Press

Narratives about motorcycling on Northern California's back roads; Reflections on the history and geography of the North State; Memoirs and early recollections of youthful visits to towns and forests and mountaintops. Also middle-of-the-road takes on current issues in politics and education. Middle of the road? Isn't that dangerous?

Saturday, December 31, 2011

THANK YOU, 2011

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana in Reason in Common Sense AT YEAR’S END, both print and br...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

MONEYBALL: RECOMMENDED READING FOR EDUCATORS

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MAYBE I’M LATE TO THE PARTY, but I just read Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball . It came to me as a Christmas gift. Ostensibly about a low-bu...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

MR. BRILLIANT RECOMMENDS – FOURTH ESTATE EDITION

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Fourth in an annual series… Books that are half-read gather dust on my shelf and generally have a bookmark still placed at their point of ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

CHRISTMAS THROUGH THE KEYHOLE

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…a cautionary tale about the office party circa 196x… CHICO’S KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS HALL, even fifty years ago, was a cavernous old building...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

2011: THE CHURCH OF THE OPEN ROAD'S YEAR IN REVIEW

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…in pictures Dawn over the Olympics – New Years Day.  [If you really have time on your hands, click on any of these pictures and it'll ...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

ON THROWING THE BASTARDS OUT

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Just the facts, Ma'am...  - Joe Friday A SMALL WATER DISTRICT serving a tiny community in the Sierra foothills finds that its income d...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

ROADKILL: THE DEMISE OF THE YEARLING

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THE YOUNG DEER – one who’d maybe just lost his spots – and his doe stepped right into traffic. I saw the whole thing as if it were in slow ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

DOIN’ THE “COSTCO WALK”

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Takin' the Guzzi to the warehouse store... A 56-DEGREE late autumn afternoon: the sky is clear and I need a break from the action. Ari...
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Maps. Some of the best stories one encounters one encounters by reading a map. A map is the framework - the outline - upon which both history and fantasy are crafted. Just as two people can witness an event and come up with entirely different recollections - each completely true, verifiable and accurate - two people can travel the same mapped route and come up with entirely different stories. But without the map, perhaps they'd have no story to tell. Some of the best anthologies in my library are stuffed in my map case.
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