Susan Gorin’s ‘cold night’ to support the homeless

By Supervisor Susan Gorin During the holiday season, many of us take time to reflect on how blessed we are – blessed and lucky to have our health, our home, our family – or to have the resources to address challenges when they arise. I... Continue

The animate and the inanimate

As living beings we naturally gravitate to other animate things, like plants and pets that become companions in our homes and lives. The feelings we have for inanimate objects can become strong as well; possessions gain value--sentimental, economic, historic--and we protect and ensure their safety.... Continue

No land left for affordable housing? Hogwash!

There seems to be a persistent impression that the City of Sonoma has run out of land for new housing. If we're talking about tens of acres of undeveloped land for tract housing, that's correct, but Sonoma decades-ago rejected construction of large-scale tract-housing development on... Continue

The year of living precariously

We’re reminded again of the horrors of fire and smoke. It’s been over a year, but many of us are still dealing with loss of many different kinds. It’s challenging and humbling. It's also a time for holiday hairballs….mixed emotions about a lot of issues... Continue

Conversations with my grandson

Dead People and Sparkle Fairies ~ “Oma, there’s dead people under those rocks, you know.” I glance over my shoulder to see what Satchel is talking about. My four-year-old grandson is commenting from his car seat about the small cemetery to our left on East... Continue

Eating out side of the box

It's come to this; shopping, food preparation and cooking are so burdensome that corporate America has concluded a smart profit's to be made from a niche target market, namely, those adults who are unwilling to eat frozen dinners or have Grub Hub deliver restaurant take-out... Continue

Screen time — then and now

Much is being made at present about the effects of screen time, particularly on children. Screen time, of course, refers to the time spent engaged with one's smart phone, iPad or laptop, which by all accounts has skyrocketed to epidemic proportions. Issues of attention deficits... Continue

Election results — a Progressive perspective

The MSM seemed to downgrade the magnitude of the Democratic win on the night of the election. “There was no ‘blue wave’” was the agreed upon corporate news menu item when the Democratic house wins were in the 25-27 seat margin. As counting has continued,... Continue

Dimples in Space-Time

Now that the election is over, we can attend to other matters of gravity. Literally. Gravity is so ever-present in our lives we rarely think about it, except perhaps, when we slip and fall. The effects of gravity are well understood, beginnings with Newton's apple... Continue

Let them eat plastic

With the discovery that micro-plastics have been found in human stool samples we can now confirm that the scourge of plastic has thoroughly permeated the world's food chain. It's unknown if the plastic discovered in the human gut has been ingested directly or through eating... Continue

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