The Santa Cruz poet answers our burning questions about what she’s reading, what she’s learned and what she’s currently snacking on.
Running Meter 4
A bit of topical doggerel.
UCSC Students Vie for Top Biz Plan
Thirty-four teams have already been fired. Now it’s time to find out who gets hired this Friday on the season final-erhm, rather, at the final dinner and judging portion of the first annual UCSC Business Plan Competition.
Civil War Reenactment Rattles Felton
This year’s Memorial Day wasn’t quite the usual scorcher, but the line for $3 bottles of water at the Civil War reenactments at Roaring Camp in Felton was nonetheless a 30-minute ordeal.
Zipping Through the Redwoods
Falling out of a tree is not as easy as it sounds. Not if all that’s keeping you from a faceful of fiddleheads some 40 feet below is a thin cable. “This one is like the bunny slope,” our canopy tour guide, Steve Richards, assures us. “Enjoy the zip.” And then he tips off the edge of the wooden platform built treehouse-style around the trunk of a living redwood tree and whizzes across a 158-foot zipline, his shadow dancing along just behind him in the sunlit brush below.
Skydiving Over Santa Cruz
It’s the most beautiful day I could have picked to jump out of an airplane. Eighty-five degrees at early evening, light breeze out of the west and 13,000 feet between me and the ground.
State Parks Key to The Staycation
Last week’s election results accentuate the bizarre circular dynamic of an economic downturn that is driving people to vacation locally at our phenomenal parks and beaches that operate using funds from a state budget that is dramatically shrinking due to in large part to…an economic downturn.
Healthy Families: A Fraying Safety Net
Gov. Schwarzenegger warned us heads would roll if the May 19th budget package failed, and the Healthy Families program is looking like it may be one of the first.
Local Teens Talk About Porn
It is easier than ever to watch, create and share pornographic images and text, and as the first generation of web-savvy teenagers who have always had the instant gratification of DSL, who get cell phones as soon as they’re old enough to talk and who’ve never used air quotes with the word “blog,” their knowledge can easily be applied to creating their own porno paradise. Which leads to the question, can this be bad for them?
Running Meter 3
A bit of topical doggerel.
