Ventura and Its Phantom Water
May 14, 2022 We have a spooky unnatural phenomenon here in Ventura – – an invisible supply of water that the civic powers can barter...
Reading My Poem "Fresh Tree" for Earth Day 2020
Go to our Local Ventura Poet's Group on Youtube to watch and listen to me read this poem, "Fresh Tree" from my book of poems, Dead Tree...
Home Deliveries Then and Now
With much of our food and supplies coming to us in this our plague time through pickup and delivery, I’ve been reflecting on such...
Covid-19 The Estrangement Phantom: Biology and Society
Viruses are neither living nor dead, but somewhere in between. As microscopic parasites, they need actual living material in a host cell...
Global Pandemic and Cosmic Wisdom
Freedom is the Recognition of Necessity—Philosopher Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831) Life Burdens How are you doing today? I ask this in...
2020 03 22 Coping with Current Disaster
REFLECTIONS ON COPING WITH CURRENT DISASTER: MARCH 22, 2020 By Bob Chianese Freedom is the Recognition of Necessity—Philosopher Georg W....
New Metaphors, Myths, and Values for a Steady State Future.
This essay was awarded a Mitchell Prize for essays on sustainable futures in 1979, making Robert L. Chianese, Ph. D., a 1979 Mitchell...
Baby-Making with Masters and Johnson,1968
Published in the St. Louis Beacon, special to the Beacon 6:18 am on Wed, 11.20. 2013 The passing of sex researcher Virginia Johnson the...
High School Crushes and 50's Sex
By Robert Chianese, Class of 1960, Hamilton High School, Trenton, New Jersey (2016) The Death of a High School Classmate provokes a...
Cruel Season: Artists on Drought & Fire at Museum of Ventura County
This eco-art exhibit at the Museum of Ventura County, entitled Cruel Season: Artists Reflecting on Drought and Fire, (Sep 13 - Nov 23,...