This Sunday, May 6, is "River Cleanup" Day. Hopefully, hundreds of volunteers will turn out to participate in our community's annual event to gather up the debris and trash that has found its way into our original "highway" to San Francisco. It is also a time to look up what [...]
If Bill Soberanes were still alive, today, he would be very pleased with the recent get-togethers of a new community action group - The Sages of Petaluma. In fact, he would be right in the middle of the group, mingling and having his picture taken with each and everyone. Although [...]
Whenever I drive by 423 E. Washington Street, I glance up to the porch expecting to see Bill sitting in his chair smoking a pipe and watching the "passing parade" of people. My thoughts go back to the days when I would visit with Bill and his wife, Jane, to [...]
We all know that Bill Soberanes claimed to be the "World's Foremost Peopleologist;" meeting both the famous and the infamous face-to-face, mingling and having his picture taken with them. A few years ago, PetalumaNet initiated a website that featured 50 of Bill's My Fascinating World of People columns that he [...]
It's four-ish and still dark outside and the freeway noise is beginning to get louder in the distance, as usual about this time in the a.m. (Who needs a watch?) For some reason, thoughts about Bill Soberanes begin to flow thnrough the "old" gray matter. It's been a while since [...]
Did you catch that front page headline in yesterday's The Press Democrat? - "Dictionary's blessing may be Google's curse?" This article by L.A. Times writers Dawn Chmielewski and Chris Gaither, reported that "google is officially a verb-. It reached the pages of the dictionary just five years after its first [...]
Over the past few days, I've been thinking about Bill - Petaluma's biggest booster and the founder of the World-Wide People-Meeters Club." Last week, I confirmed the date for the 2006 Whiskerino Contest, in collaboration with the Farmers' Market. It will be held in Walnut Park on Saturday, October 14. [...]
Today is not only the anniversary of Bill's death three years ago; but the date of his first column (So They Tell Me) for the Argus-Courier, 49 years ago. It is also the day that this Blogger-Peopleologist will cut back on the number of entries he'll post each week.I know [...]
Too much happening yesterday, so I wasn't able to post a blog in the early hours of the morning, as I usually do. Just like Bill Soberanes, I was about to miss a deadline. My regular viewers know that I've been posting "something" daily for over 60 days. Was this [...]
I've been so occupied with writing a blog per day, I was late in reading all of the Sunday, newspapers, including the S.F. Chronicle. In their "Insight" Section, there was an article titled "The inside story of how the City's Herb Caen won a Pulitzer Prize after just 58 years." [...]