An Englishman I met on a kibbutz in Israel during the many international travel years of my youth asked me a question I’ve pondered ever since. Genuinely curious, he asked me in his measured, lilting…
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Last week our hospital on the coast underwent its Joint Commission site visit for the clinical portion of our accreditation survey. We passed with flying colors. This accreditation survey is done every three years and…
September 13 was the day on which all the patients at Laguna Honda were supposed to have been evacuated and the hospital’s federal funding cut off. So it was decreed back in April by the…
Editor: A recent Bay Area letter illustrated some of the misinformation being circulated regarding Israel and the Palestinians. Israel— the state of the Jewish people who have returned to their indigenous homeland — is a…
Another Burning Man gathering has come and gone, supposedly “leaving no trace” as one of their primary credos has it…
Chiggers are small, affectionate animals frequently encountered in the southeast and which the North Carolina Board of Tourism wisely avoids mentioning in its travel literature and nature guides. Chiggers are a tiny fraction of the…
Attention readers and writers: Send us your list of favorite books, especially the ones that influenced the way you live and think. We'll begin with Bruce McEwen who has inspired me to list some of…
When Hollifield came here and built his mill, everyone wanted to work for him… — Ken Hurst recollection, August, 2022 When I first moved to The Valley half a century ago, locals were still telling…