The one-day labor win for the faculty, adjuncts, post-doc fellows, counselors, and librarians at the planned week-long strike at California State University (CSU) is probably the best unexpected political news for 2024, so I’m banking it. I had planned to write a PMC column urging... Continue
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Now that the rain is here and the ground is muddy, it is the best time of year for animal tracking in Sonoma Valley. While our local coyotes, bobcats, fox and other wild creatures live here year-round, finding their tracks is much harder when everything... Continue
Life on earth is very, very old, a couple of billion years, at least, and nearly all the creatures that have ever lived have disappeared. Were it not for photographs, we’d lack a visual record of our recent past, let alone that of our ancestors.... Continue
The mind/body split is quite a persistent delusion, even though the two are inseparably bound. In a supreme act of imagination, “I am self” decides that it is something apart, not only from the body but almost from the rest of the universe. This tendency... Continue
Did you know that The Sonoma Valley Community Advisory Commission (SVCAC) is one of the longest running advisory commissions in the county? It was first formed in 1993 through a Joint Powers Agreement between the County and the City of Sonoma particularly focused on land... Continue
My friend Richard Reoch recently lost his wife of 50 years. That experience prompted him to write the following about getting ready for anything. “Thank you for teaching us,” the nurse said to me as she took out her phone and photographed what I call... Continue
Congress will be continue to pass numerous tax law changes. Below are tidbits that that you might find useful: IRS Online Account enhancements. You can now access your Online Account at the IRS where you can view tax owed and payment history and schedule payments. You can... Continue
“We see that in modern times many stones lack the virtues formerly attributed to them.” - Petrus Garsias Episcopus, 1639 I was struck by the irony of learning that Representative Steve Scalise, a conservative Republican, is being treated for cancer with stem cells,... Continue
Pondering this question, slurping a long noodle, eking out a couple of vegetables tossed in the soup, I had to laugh. Gladys McCarey, MD, 102-year-old author of The Well Lived Life, suggests asking “When life is truly flowing, what gives us juice? Juice – the... Continue
These are the words of Annie Falandes, the founder of Homeless Action Sonoma (H.A.S.) from her December newsletter. “People ask me, why spend so much money? Someday I will have time to pull up the statistics, but as I have known from other studies, what we... Continue