Larry Livermore

Where I Am, Where I’ve Been

It’s been quiet, too quiet around here. There are reasons, there always are, but nonetheless I feel bad about having

Students of Chinese history will be familiar with the mandate of heaven (天命 – tiānmìng), but the concept can be

Quite a few friends, especially those primed for a midlife crisis but for whom a red convertible or summer in

There’s a period of my life, almost five years, when there’s no proof I existed. From 1966 I’ve got a

Things were looking grim. I had to get out of town in a hurry, but I had no money, and

Wait, they’re shooting white kids now? It might not have been phrased exactly that way, but that was the subliminal

The title is a bit clickbaity, I’ll admit, maybe even misleading. The word “hippie” has been so broadly used and

I woke up this morning wondering how my life might have been different if I had learned to read from

When I was living in San Francisco in the mid-1970s, we’d get leaflets stuck under our front door inviting us

Over the past few years I’ve traveled to China seven times. I’ve visited ten major cities, some of them multiple