Last year I watched the movie, “Leave the World Behind.” The plot is an apocalyptic scenario in which external threats and internal strife break down societal order. Starting with a tanker ship running aground on the beach, then building the story that everything we know,... Continue
On Saturday, July 27, a crowd of 250 people gathered in the Grinsted Amphitheatre at the invitation of nonprofit Wake Up Sonoma to protest Project 2025, the proposed restructuring of American democracy developed by the conservative Heritage Foundation. Project 2025 has been described as a... Continue
I’m hard-wired for formal prayer. I recite the Our Father when an earthquake hits and sometimes at night as I fall asleep. Then a Hail Mary arises, a woman about whom I hold equally wobbly beliefs. I surrender and move on to bless my family,... Continue
I was working on my computer during a recent weekday evening with the TV on in the background, when the sudden assault took place, interrupting my train of thought, scrambling my ability to frame rational word associations, flooding my brain with inchoate rage and sending... Continue
3D-printed blood vessels, which closely mimic the properties of human veins, could transform the treatment of cardiovascular diseases Continue
State legislators in California have proposed bills to tell shoppers that gas stoves — which are in some 40 percent of U.S. homes — put them, their children and even their pets at risk of asthma, leukemia and other illnesses Continue
Editor: Trump is a lunatic and an extremely dangerous one at that. He bounces in and out of reality into a world of lies, extreme exaggerations and his own created realm, which is bereft of coherence or anything even approaching a standard, normal, recognizable reality. ... Continue
Editor, Since March 2024, the Center for People Power and Sonoma Valley for Ceasefire has raised the issue of how we move from local to global people power in a time when human rights violations and basic principles of care are ignored or violated with... Continue
Editor: Each week during the school year more than 300 adults spend one hour with students in our Sonoma schools as a mentor – to talk, play games and simply be there as a caring adult. This very small effort (an hour a week of... Continue
Editor: This is directed to Catherine Sevenau: I enjoyed reading your column this morning in the latest issue of The Sun. I hope you’re not planning on “kicking off” the planet anytime soon. Please stay a while longer. Yet, as always, your writing has stirred... Continue