The Captain's Blog

  POINT RICHMOND , California -   The Fabelmans   is reportedly a semi-autobiographical look at director Steven Spielberg's early life. ...

     G ENEVA, NY - My newspaper column in the Finger Lakes Times draws mostly positive comments.      But today the Opinion Page (where my W...

G RASS VALLEY, Calif. - In 1981, I told the famous Chuck Yeager to get his "damn boots" off my desk at The Union newspaper where ...

   P OINT RICHMOND - The Red Writer was all set to barrel off in search of clean air two days ago.      Bags were being packed, groceries...

   P OINT RICHMOND, Calif . - When Admiral Fox and I first got The Red Writer T@B trailer, one name we considered briefly was Escape Veloc...

   P OINT RICHMOND, Calif. - On the same day as I wrote a column for the Finger Lakes Times about friendships across the decades , an intri...

Biscuit wisely uses Sylvia as shield    P OINT RICHMOND - Ask your dog if he or she is upset about the stay-at-home, shelter in place or...

   P ETALUMA, Calif. - There are traditions and there are traditions.      And so it was when my oldest son was nearly 5-years-old and m...

   P OINT RICHMOND - A simple errand.      Drive to a bank in El Cerrito, make a quick transaction and drive home.      And that's pr...

   P OINT RICHMOND - The sewing machines have been, well, sewing like crazy for more than a week now here, across California, the nation -...

   P OINT RICHMOND - Cabin fever broke out today in my condo.      Even Biscuit is showing symptoms. • Irritability  • Jumping at lo...

P OINT RICHMOND - A friend in upstate NY passed along these tidbits of coronavirus & shelter-in-place humor... Half of us...

   P OINT RICHMOND, Calif. - In the middle of this coronavirus muddle - and by middle I simply mean that the virus muddle is all around us...

   P OINT RICHMOND, Calif. - Point Richmond has a wildly active ukulele group that had been gathering at Kaleidoscope Coffee (still open b...

   P OINT RICHMOND, Calif. - Sunday was a day of mask production here in Admiral Fox's workshop office.      No, not mass production. ...

   P OINT RICHMOND - Maritime bromides are filling my mind as I write about, read and ponder the coronavirus/COVID-19 situation.      Situ...

   P OINT RICHMOND, Calif. - More than a decade ago, I set out to achieve three goals, not necessarily in the order listed below.     ...

   P OINT RICHMOND, Calif. - Two decades ago we were getting ready to sail our 48-foot sailboat Sabbatical under the Golden Gate Bridge in...

   P OINT RICHMOND, Calif. - Everyone reading this is likely in the same boat, so to speak. The coronavirus has us all hiding out inside o...

   P OINT RICHMOND, Calif. - If you have ever seen a Roadrunner cartoon (and who hasn't, really...) you're familiar with how the fas...