Darby Lee Patterson
- Jul 7, 2021
- 4 min
The Mighty Miss of Give and Take
Suffocating through the extreme heat of the past weeks, my mind drifted back to a different time and place when weather conditions were...
Darby Lee Patterson
- Jun 29, 2021
- 4 min
Aging Stereotypes, Please meet Reality
Mollie Burrows was a dear friend and role model for me. She died at the age of 97 a couple of years ago. Though she’s never far from my...
Darby Lee Patterson
- Jun 22, 2021
- 4 min
Burning Man Fest Comes to the Kitchen
Now that a respectful Father’s Day is behind us, I am feeling freer to talk about some observations I’ve gathered through countless...
Darby Lee Patterson
- Jun 15, 2021
- 5 min
Marching with a Father of Change
In 1974 I landed a pretty sweet job in the news department of KTMS Radio in Santa Barbara. I started out by doing simple interviews with...
Darby Lee Patterson
- Jun 8, 2021
- 4 min
Magic, Music and the Mediterranean Sea
Darby Lee Patterson It was a dream trip. A cruise around the Mediterranean with stops in ports I thought I’d only read about in glossy...
Darby Lee Patterson
- Jun 1, 2021
- 4 min
A Writer’s-Block Buster
It was not so far past the days when newspaper reporters hunched over their desks with cigarettes dangling from their lips. When the...