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Tim Van Schmidt I wrote a letter to the President. I thought I would ask him a question. I sent my letter to the Press Office in the White House, thinking maybe my august position as a freelancer writing for the North Forty News might work. I pleaded my case that I was a senior writer looking at “retirement” and that working a White House press conference had always been a dream of mine. NOCO calling – White House, Washington DC; Photo by Tim Van Schmidt Then, I tried to ask a question of gravity: “Everything seems so confused and conflicted in the United States today. Where do we fin...

  I first heard The Grateful Dead play live on New Year’s Eve. This was back in 1970, but it’s not as cool as it may sound. The Dead were playing Winterland Arena in San Francisco and a television station there was broadcasting it. My family had just moved from Phoenix to the San Fernando Valley, just north of Los Angeles. I found myself on New Year’s Eve that year playing cards with the son of one of my dad’s colleagues while flipping around the channels of the TV. At one point, I hit on The Grateful Dead concert in San Francisco — don’t ask me why it was available in L.A., but ...