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How the Federal Cost-Sharing Reduction Decision for Health Care Affects You

I don’t know how you all reacted to news of President Trump’s executive order eliminating cost-sharing reduction payments, but I know what I did: went on to CoveredCa.com to re-up my insurance for next year before all hell breaks loose. I was therefore reassured to receive this email from Covered California yesterday afternoon. It explains […]

Even in areas scorched by California wildfires, mail delivery continues

Even in areas scorched by California wildfires, mail delivery continues.

Essays on Film is a Free Feature Today on Instafreebie!

My eBook Essays on Film: On Viewing Hans Richter’s Rhythmus 21 and The Perfect Filmic Appositiveness of Jack Smith? is being featured this week on Instafreebie! http://blog.instafreebie.com/see-it-f... Download your copy in any digital format for free!    Filed under: Fiction & Essays, Not-Always-So-Popular Culture Tagged: cinema, essays on film, flaming creatures, free ebooks, German avant-garde […]

My Anxiety Wasn’t Real: One Woman’s Experience with Mental Disorder

My Anxiety Wasn't Real: One Woman's Experience with Mental Disorder

My books are now available at the Alameda County Library!

So, my books have finally made it into the Alameda County Library system. I have to admit it was a pretty cool surprise to be browsing the new arrivals at my local branch and see my own book on the shelf! What was even neater, though, was checking the course catalog and finding that one […]

Essays on Film

My eBook Essays on Film is now available for preorder on Amazon. Features the following: “On Viewing Hans Richter’s Rhythmus 21″”: The search for cinematic meaning in one of the most famous early German avant-garde films. The Perfect Filmic Appositiveness of Jack Smith”: Impressions of the films of one of cinema’s most eccentric auteurs. Essays […]

Happy Labor Day, Everyone!

ILGWU Local 62 marches in a Labor Day parade. Photo courtesy of The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 Filed under: Science & Society Tagged: ILGWU, Kheel Center, Labor Day, Labor day 1960s, Labor Day marches, Labor Day parades, Labor Day photo archive, labor unions, old photos, union local […]

San Francisco Shatters All-Time Heat Record at 106 Degrees

In a city where residential air conditioning is all but unheard of, San Franciscans spent Friday, September 1st sweltering in 106-degree heat, shattering the city’s all-time heat record. The Death Valley-like triple-digit temperatures have been recorded in many locales around the state, leading to excessive heat warnings and the opening of potentially life-saving “cooling centers” […]

Kangaroos on the Wing?

Kangaroos on the Wing?

Houston Sports Retailer Becomes Home Base for First Responders

Found this touching story about Academy Sports + Outdoors, a sports retailer in Texas that has opened its stores and donated rescue equipment to first responders in the Houston area: read it here. In the wake of stories about people like famed pastor Joel Osteen, who closed the doors of his Houston megachurch that seats […]