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Happy belated Mother’s Day to all you moms out there. I hope your day was filled with love and laughter. It’s truly a day to admire your children and be proud of all the work you do on a daily basis. As moms we wear many hats. My hats range from nurse, to psychologist, chef, confidant and personal assistant to name a few. Children, especially teenagers, don’t really understand all that motherhood entails. As you know, it’s the hardest job in the world. On Sunday, I officially took the day off.

Soon it will be time to congratulate the Class of 2017, the older teenagers who will be completing their high school careers and preparing for college, technical training, work careers, travel and entry into adulthood.

In Danish woman director Lone Sherfig’s new film, Their Finest, we watch Mrs. Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) carefully making her way through a rain of dust and over snaking fire hoses on a street where houses were recently transformed into funeral piles of deadly...

Q) I keep getting emails with links to YouTube videos from my friends. They sometimes say that I should watch the video in full screen. What is that and how do I do it? A) Good questions. Here’s the scoop. In any YouTube video there...

After 21 harvests, Hank and Maggie Skewis are closing Skewis Wines to explore life in different ways while still young enough to travel. I visited the Healdsburg tasting room of my friends last weekend to purchase wine for the last time. As I tasted through...

Our Sonoma County, like the rest of the country these days, has been filled with political marches, public square demonstrations and other louder than usual exercises of free speech. But in some places there also has been violent backlash, arrests and both high-decibel heckling...

Dennis Hunter: Outlaw Turned Cannabis CEO When I think of Dennis Hunter, 45, clichés come to mind like a flock of birds landing on an overhead telephone wire. Clichés also come to Hunter’s mind. I don’t mean that as a criticism. After all, behind almost...

Most of this month the Sun will be in the earth sign Taurus, perhaps the most methodical and conservative of the signs. However, there will also be significant energy moving through fire signs, which suggests this could be a time of creative action. Mercury,...

I readily admit, getting older is a challenge. Most days I can move along just fine because in my mind I’m the same guy I’ve always been. But every now and then I run into someone, who without trying to, reminds me of how...

The routine news of the week, what’s going on around town and with our families and bigger things like the $18 trillion national debt or the current woes of the last-place San Francisco Giants always go down better with a little humor on the...