I. Former newspaper column in the Santa Cruz Sentinel
Most recent columns first.

  1. The column they refused to run: Alabama Slammer–the buzz in Dixie: don't!
  2. January 30, 2000: Grandmother of Stately Grace, Strong as an Oak
  3. January 5, 2000: The Best Party Yet
  4. December 26, 1999: Y2K, Ya Don't Scare Me!
  5. December 12, 1999: The House of Tomorrow
  6. November 28, 1999: Home Depot = Hell Depot
  7. November 14, 1999: We're Harry Potterheads Now
  8. October 31, 1999: Nine Lives and All of Them Wonderful
  9. October 17, 1999: Ten Year Anniversary of the Quake of '89
  10. October 3, 1999: To Sleep, Perchance to Snore
  11. September 19, 1999 : Hey, You Huggers, Stick to Trees
  12. September 5, 1999: Musings from a Lifelong Flirt
  13. August 22, 1999: Further Adventures of a Freed Spirit
  14. August 8, 1999: The Heat Can't Be Beat...or Beaten
  15. July 25, 1999: Only the Good Die Young?
  16. July 11, 1999: A Bad Example of Making a Bad Example
  17. June 27, 1999: Adam Ain't to Blame
  18. June 6, 1999: Breaking the Rule to Be Cool
  19. May 22, 1999: Chemistry & timing: my secret to relationships
  20. May 8, 1999: Mother's Day
  21. April 26, 1999: Y4X: Is forty fatal?
  22. April 12, 1999: Kosovo
  23. March 26, 1999: Return to Sunny Lane
  24. March 12, 1999: Now there was a man: remembering Gene Gene
  25. February 12, 1999: In sickness and in health
  26. January 29, 1999: Barbie at mid-life
  27. January 8, 1999: Football and faith healing
  28. December 24, 1998: God Rest Ye, Cheating Gentlemen
  29. December 3, 1998: Napa in autumn
  30. November 20, 1998: Grief, my friend
  31. November 6, 1998: The Empress has no clothes: busting Dr. Laura
  32. October 23, 1998: Hockey's a hoot!
  33. October 9, 1998: Open Studios tours
  34. September 25, 1998: The zen of "y'all"
  35. September 11, 1998: Getting your groove back
  36. August 28, 1998: Dispatch from Africa
  37. August 14, 1998: Incredible treasure (Cabrillo Music Festival)
  38. July 13, 1998: "Gone with the Wind"
  39. June 12, 1998: The fools in our schools
  40. May 29, 1998: The rose whisperer
  41. May 15, 1998: You should hear yourself
  42. May 1, 1998: The dreaded 39th
  43. April 17, 1998: Dream within a dream
  44. April 4, 1998: The Muse of Santa Cruz
  45. March 20, 1998: This isn't meat, it's chicken!
  46. March 6, 1998: Sympathy for the Wolfman
  47. February 20, 1998: One-stop shopping
  48. February 6, 1998: It's none of our business
  49. January 23, 1998: Cyber neighbors
  50. January 9, 1998: As rude as it gets on the internet
  51. December 26, 1997: Holiday hangover
  52. December 12, 1997: Requiem for a beloved pet
  53. November 28, 1997: Say it ain't so, Joe Bob Briggs
  54. November 14, 1997: The cloning of the Mouse
  55. October 31, 1997: Halloween in "The Tombs"
  56. October 17, 1997: Hello, Sheriff? It's me again...
  57. October 3, 1997: Match wasn't made in heaven but in personal ad
  58. September 19, 1997: Dying in the spotlight
  59. September 12, 1997: 'Tis NOT the season for Christmas hype
  60. August 22, 1997: Sunday is mine! Taking back a personal holy day
  61. August 8, 1997: A date with Spotlight's newest columnist

II. Interviews with:

  1. Southern Culture on the Skids, June 28, 1996
  2. Steve Earle, August 2, 1996
  3. Junior Brown, August 9, 1996
  4. Sonny Landreth, September 23, 1996
  5. Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, January 31, 1997
  6. Johnny Clyde Copeland, May 23, 1997
  7. Rosanne Cash, August 15, 1997



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