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A week ago my dad came to Windsor for a quick visit. I had asked him to help me get some glasses for the computer, and instead of mailing back the glasses, he decided to bring them to me. We didn’t do anything special—just hung out, ordered some Chinese food from Yinking, and then had breakfast the next morning at Omelette Express as he was leaving town to head back up to Magalia.

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Much is being made about this country’s current political divide and a brewing war of cultures. Much of it is wrong. You might say it is fake news.

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My favorite meal of the year is actually pre-Thanksgiving (though of course I love Thanksgiving and all it entails); it is on Thanksgiving Eve. We sit down to a simple table and devour local, roasted, Dungeness crab. I look forward to it all year long, every year. Of course we prepare other things like homemade pasta with tomato sauce from our summer/fall harvest, fresh green salad and we pick-up a loaf of crusty sourdough bread. A big Sunday jug of Preston or bottles of Dry Creek Valley zinfandels are requisite too.

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100 years ago – November 14, 1918