Refugee from Nazism Warns of Autocracy in U.S.

Here’s a story I wrote for the Ojai Quarterly’s summer issue about the peril that we — meaning our somewhat democratic form of government — face from a “would-be” dictator. The warning comes with authority: W. Michael Blumenthal as a child lived in Nazi Germany — the family barely escaping annihiliation in 1939 — andContinue reading “Refugee from Nazism Warns of Autocracy in U.S.”

Facing Drought Together: Ojai Valley News

Let me share Kimberly Rivers' thoughtful newspaper story about an event here in town I helped launch —Facing Drought Together – which did draw a good crowd, and got a lot of conversation started I hope. Here's an excerpt from story in the Ojai Valley News:  “I took away the realization that a lot of other people in OjaiContinue reading “Facing Drought Together: Ojai Valley News”