Keith Brumley
Budget cuts are consequence of going for quantity over quality
There’s nothing quite like the unexpected sense of having one’s guts ripped out and fed to the crows. It’s one of those million dollar existential experiences you wouldn’t pay a nickel for. This, I imagine is how many of those summarily fired in the recent SDSU cuts feel. If they can come out of it [...]
Memories of Old Bill: You come a’ ridin’, cowboy
Bill Mulligan was an old school horse trader. The story was that he’d moved west from New Jersey in the 1960s because he got on the wrong side of the law. That didn’t matter to me because most stories like that are what they are; just stories. They’re a way for the locals to explain [...]
Be like Don Quixote
Columnist While Japan dumps 3 million gallons of radioactive water in the Pacific Ocean and the U.S. is facing a governmental shutdown, I’m at home recovering from a total hip replacement. I’d like to write about all the wonderful ideas I have but, due to the combination of pain and pain killers, there are none. [...]
Tragedies force us to question relationships
It was, I suppose, a good death—relatively instantaneous. Folks around the building say it was a massive brain hemorrhage. Though I knew her, respected her and appreciated her presence during the small, intimate meals we all shared through the seasons, I didn’t attend her funeral. I also avoided the reception. It wasn’t because I didn’t [...]
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