I’m fine, no worries here. The air is even clean, thanks to a change in the wind. But the fire news just keeps getting worse. We lost a firefighter today, an entire town yesterday, and the end is not in sight. I’m too overwhelmed to try to summarize it all, but here’s California Wildfires at [...]

Here’s what the news stations media are calling it: “Firestorm 2003″. Dramatic to the end, but even Fox News is having a hard time overdramatizing what is happening here. You’ll hear the numbers on the news eventually: at least 11 dead, two dozen more deaths being “investigated”; at last count [although nobody's had time to [...]

The morning dawned an eery yellow but the sky remained dark to the west, a black cloud spreading. Back home in Minnesota, the mustard glow can mean only one thing: tornado weather. But here in Southern California, it’s a different story. I knew there must be a fire somewhere not far away. A big fire. [...]