“Fire and Water are good Servants, but they are very bad Masters.“ Jonathan Swift, 1738 The photo was taken in Altadena CA a few weeks after the Eaton and Pacific Pallisades fires caused s...Read More
This is a contributing factor to the fires currently plaguing California: “In 2016, then-governor Jerry Brown actually vetoed a bill that had unanimously passed the state legislature to promote ...Read More
Nostalgia Post from October 2009 The house across the Street from us on Wynn Rd in Pasadena burned down ten years ago. I was home and checked to be sure everyone was out of the house. I was one of the...Read More
Here is an example of competing interests, power groups and unintended consequences. On our recent New England trip we observed that in hotels built before about 1980 the stairs were a usable alternat...Read More
