Letter from the Editor
David Bolling: Communism, Capitalism and Christ
Donald Trump, who has demonstrated neither interest in nor aptitude for knowing and understanding world history, has seized on the word “communism” as a favorite…
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Public Citizen
Larry Barnett: What’s to Become of Us?
The student of history quickly learns that new technologies do more than support the operation of culture, they transform and replace it. From the wheel…
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Food and Wine
Kathleen Hill’s Thanksgiving Dining Guide
Nobody Should Go Hungry Thanksgiving in the United States is certainly different this year. Many Sonoma Valley restaurants are offering special dinners for dining in…
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Snark Infested Waters
Bob Edwards: Climate Change Catastrophe? Meh!
Notwithstanding the work of 30 global environmental conferences and Sonoma County’s strict recycling rules (‘No tampons in the blue can’), climate change is definitely coming.…
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As I See It
Will Shonbrun: Books, and The Great Lies that Tell the Truth
Albert Camus wrote of fiction as, “the great lie through which we tell the truth.” So what are the “great lies” and what are the…
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Cartoons by Hilary
Cartoon by Hilary: “Do not eat pie contest”
Hilary Campbell is a New Yorker magazine cartoonist who just happens to have been born and raised in Sonoma.
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What's Up With That?
Kty Byrne: Fa la la la la, Falderol and Holiday Next Steps
It’s definitely the “holidaze,” inviting feelings and emotional hairballs of all kinds! It’s been a rumbling year, pulling me toward some memories I wish to…
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Community Voices
John Staley: A Decade Without Decadence
By John Staley Sobriety is a pain in the ass – inconvenient in other words. When I decided to quit drinking ten years ago, I…
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Voices of the New Majority
Loretta Carpio-Carr: Happy Autumn!
My neighborhood in Sonoma’s west side has a lot of foot traffic – students walking to and from school, patients going to their medical appointments,…
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Rude Awakenings
Catherine Sevenau: Through Any Given Door – A Family Memoir Prologue
My brother Larry thought Mom was a good mother, but he had a different childhood than we did. My sisters were convinced otherwise: Carleen complained…
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Sonoma Farm Scene
Seth Dolinsky: Community Gardens, Community Farms?
First of Two Parts The challenges facing food production here in the Sonoma Valley have been well documented, including high cost of land and housing,…
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Personal/Political
Josette Brose-Eichar: How Do You Define Savvy?
Savvy sav’e, adjective. Well informed and perceptive; shrewd. Knowledgeable or proficient. I read a letter to the editor in the newspaper the other day. The…
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Wild Valley
Teri Shore: The Season of the Crow
The crows are back. They arrived on time as usual, just when the black walnuts started dropping from the tree growing in front of the…
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