Shepherd Bliss

Shepherd Bliss teaches college part time, farms, and has contributed to two-dozen books. He can be reached at: 3sb@comcast.net.

Love at First Sight: Old Man Adopts Dog

How Falling Down Can Lead to Waking Up: Learning From Loss and Pain

What Happens at a Death Café?

Cannabis Cultivating Re-Visited

Japanese American Internment Remembered, as Trump Rounds Up Immigrants

Monsanto’s Roundup Kills and Damages More than Weeds

Why I Support Bernie Sanders for President

California’s Wine Industry: Just How “Sustainable” Is It?

Wine Empire Replaces Redwood Empire

Rural Rebellion in Northern California

California’s Drought and Water Competition

Trouble in “Wine Country”

High Technology and Weapons of Mass Destruction

A Second Chance—25 Years Later

Dancing with Death at Death Cafes

Demanding Justice for Andy Lopez

Coalition for Slain Andy Lopez Founded

Teenager Andy Lopez Killing by Sheriff Update

Killing of Teenager Andy Lopez Ignites Latino Community

Killing Andy Lopez

Industrial Vineyards as Chemical Warfare

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or “Moral Injury”?

Free Speech & Leadership at Sonoma State University

Greenwashing Sustainability

Preying on Small Towns

The Fukushima Gyre

Shame on Sonoma State

Occupy’s Growing Pains

Out of the Ashes

Inside an Occupy Affinity Group

Chicago 1968, Seattle 1999 and Now Occupy 2011

Going Down Fighting

Marine Down in Oakland

A New Story is Unfolding

Learning From the Community of the Land

"Be Ye Not Like a Child … "

The No Blow Movement

A Tribute to Fallen Leaves

Oklahoma City, Columbine, Virginia Tech and Fort Hood

The Soulless Machine

A Field Report from Slow Food Nation

Slow Food Nation Gains Momentum

The False U.S. Economy

Returning to the Scene of the Crime

Torture’s Long Reach

Veterans’ Love Story

The Decline of the American Empire

Torture Memories

Bioneers Sparks Drive-by Shots from New York Times

American Soul (and Empire)