The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Biologists sometimes talk about the cycles of life. Communications scholars occasionally debate aspects of the “news cycle.” Life appears to move in circles, like the rotating planet Earth itself. Such it is with each individual life. In recent times, with all the crazy chaos upending this fast…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – California has the highest average gas prices in the nation, at $6.15 a gallon, where prices tend to be higher due to a combination of state taxes and fees, environmental regulations and special fuel blends. Of all the U.S. states, it was…
But this 21st Century Hell is Not for Me – Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – The Old West is full of great stories, famous the world over. Some are based on a bit of truth; others seem made up out of whole cloth. The Shootout at the…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – “I am haunted by waters,” author Norman Maclean wrote in the conclusion to his memoir A River Runs Through It. It is a line that will be familiar to anyone who watched the movie produced and directed by Robert Redford about hard…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Man, have we seen changes come in our time or what? As I was reading The New York Times on Thursday morning the last day of April, 2026, and sharing some headlines on Facebook, I was reading another long screed about the…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – So in the interest of being “honest” and “unmerciful” as a writer – the sage advice to a young rock journalist from Philip Seymour Hoffman as Cream magazine editor Lester Bangs in the film “Almost Famous” – let me just say here…
A New Gold Rush Could Be Coming to California – Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – In creating my own version of literary journalism on the web over the past 20 years, as regular readers know I’ve often turned to Mark Twain and other American writers for inspiration.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Are we losing not just our attention spans but the ability to think deeply at all just in time for machines to take over? Is it time for millions of us to die in war because the machine economy will not support us? These…
“I believe there exists… an instinct for truth … & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.” – Charles Darwin to J. S. Henslow, April 1, 1848 The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Could there be any…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – The war for democracy is over. Trump’s authoritarianism won. So many Democrats were so worried about another Civil War that they refused to engage in the fight. Now what are the rest of us supposed to do? I know, you don’t believe…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Before you dismiss what I’m about to say due to the headline on Facebook, and before I get off into the full story of what happened to me, let me just show you up front an excerpt from one scientific-health journal article.…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As the sun rises over the Sierra mountain ridge with a clear blue sky as a backdrop, 2,797 miles west of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. on this MLK national holiday, I woke up thinking about were I…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – If people knew how much value grabbing and holding their attention held for media outlets, social media platforms, corporate advertisers and politicians of all stripes, would it make a difference in how people spend their time and money? Maybe. Maybe not. But at least…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – At least the sun is shining in the new year in the great state of California, even as dark clouds still block the sun on democracy in Washington, D.C. on this fifth infamous anniversary of Trump’s insurrection to overthrow the United States government on…
We begin 2026 by documenting Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions and crimes – By Glynn Wilson – Tales From the MoJo Road – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – As the year 2025 came to an ignominious close, a few friends were having drinks while the view of the fireworks out the front apartment window was obscured by…
By Glynn Wilson – Tales From the MoJo Road – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – We were somewhere around Sunnyvale headed north at high speed on 101 in the Forest Green Gwyneth Ford, a media camper van, when the sun finally burned through the fog, just in time to reveal the view of South Bay. The…
“Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.” – Sam Elliott as The Stranger in “The Big Lebowski.” Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – Sometimes in this crazy, mixed up world, the written word can make all the difference. Yet sometimes, no matter…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – From the Golden Gate Bridge crossing San Francisco Bay to Apple’s iconic round “Spaceship” campus in Cupertino near San Jose, there lies an ideal place in the universe that embodies the American Dream in the 21st century. Driving north from San…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – So on the eve of my trip to San Francisco to meet some of the human bots whose technology controls so much of our lives now, I awoke at 5 a.m. with an existential question that has been hounding my thoughts of…
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?” – Don Quixote Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Mark Twain was already on my mind Tuesday morning when the news came across the email wire that one of our great science writers died. In the account of…
