How much of a joke are New Years resolutions, actually there’re not really funny, have been thoroughly discredited, and exposed as a silly ritual which…
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Floodgate, like history, is Open Every Day. From anywhere in the Valley, you go “down to Floodgate.” Whether you need something as prosaic as flypaper…
Senator John Sanford represented Mendocino County’s interest in state government from 1894 to 1908. Well respected as a teacher and a journalist, “He has an…
Well that was a Christmas not to remember. First there weren’t any presents under the tree that I didn’t put up in the living room,…
Seen you in the supermarket you and Lily Tomlin got a big hit and leaning in for Hillary I ain't surprised not one little bit…
The essential trait shared by creators of movies and symphonies is vanity. Neither form of expression would exist without the unshakeable belief of the director…
In my childhood, I was surrounded by evidence that there was something very important going on. Down half a block and around the corner a…
Peg Melnik wrote an excellent article on the Barron Herzog Wines several weeks ago in the Press Democrat. She included some of the history of…
It was the last hours of 1999. Lots of people who should know better had predicted that the world would end at midnight. The computers…