The curse that shaped the life of my grandmother, the lives of my mother and her brother, the life of my brother, and my own life, has finally been lifted. My brother and his wife lifted the curse, and their daughter Olivia, my charming niece, is the prime beneficiary of their heroic reversal of our family pattern, though I feel gifted by that reversal, too.
Posts published in “Day: April 17, 2014”
Almost a year ago an important document about a primary resource sustaining the Anderson Valley community was published with little local notice or comment. A…
Patches of snow cling to the muddy earth in the city’s picturesque nineteenth-century cemetery just to our north. Down in the gorge immediately to our…
Vaccination is one of history's most significant health advances. But California has had outbreaks of measles and pertussis in the past year. California also has…
