It’s Great to Be Back

It’s Great to Be Back

Hello from West Contra Costa—it’s great to be back! I missed the wide-open skies. I’ve been walking the new trail from Pinole to Hercules, overlooking the old trail where we used to scuttle across the tracks and clamber up the rocks jutting out of the bay. Today I...
Contractions

Contractions

A contraction is a shortened version of two small words. It’s made by dropping one of the internal sounds and replacing it with an apostrophe:  “it is” drops the short i sound in the middle and becomes “it’s”. Similarly, “did...