Sonoma’s Friday Farmers market – officially the Sonoma Valley Certified Farmer’s Market (SCVFM) – has been the Valley's main source for locally produced food for decades. Over four to be exact, having been founded in 1985 by some forward-thinking farmers and residents, notably including Paul... Continue
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By Josette Brose-Eichar My earliest memories are of north Minneapolis. My older sister, Eileen, walking me to Hawthorn Elementary School on frozen sidewalks. Midday I would walk back to our third-floor tenement apartment alone. Even as a small child I was unafraid to wander from... Continue
Happy Valentines Awards for Valley and Valley Swim Club Somehow chefs Emma Lipp and Stephanie Reagor flew off the high dive and made a clean entry into the not-so-clear pool below. The two chefs left Scribe winery and dove into their Valley Bar + Bottle... Continue
The proverbial frog-in-the-pot is toast, a wafer of black carbon, a skeletal memory of it’s original form. We watched it shrink as the water boiled away, then we wondered if it would snap back to life before the heat shriveled the carcass. Maybe the frog... Continue
No matter how much order nor how many distinctions we make about the universe, in essence, it’s just a soup of subatomic waves and particles. Whether this represents some sort of primordial order or billions of years of entropy and chaos, is incidental. As human... Continue
By Josette Brose-Eichar Today the sun is back out, the fog and rain gone, yet the days are chilled and the nights brittle and cold, to the point of shattering. During the rain, those with no real home were washed out of their attempts at... Continue
There is a point of view that argues America’s crisis is inevitable, that authoritarian barbarity is baked into our system and it’s what we have regularly and violently inflicted upon targeted domestic and international populations. It’s not an easy argument to refute. Our brutal exercise... Continue
Mushrooms seem to be everywhere right now, pushing up from the earth through damp, disintegrating leaves and mud, growing on logs and trees, or popping up in lawns and gravel landscapes. The abundance of mushrooms has attracted lots of attention from nature lovers as well... Continue
Animal Rights activist Zoe Rosenberg was arrested in 2023, tried in late 2025 and recently sentenced to 90 days confinement (jail and home) for taking four (4) hens from Perdue Farms’ slaughterhouse in Petaluma, hens she said were being kept in deplorable conditions. Zoe is... Continue
Researchers have discovered in Hitler’s DNA evidence of Kallmann syndrome, a genetic disorder characterized by, among other things, a small you-know-what. It might be easy to draw a conclusion from this, since compensating for feelings of inadequacy can lead to the strong man syndrome. I’m... Continue