Decoding Teenagers: The Dark Side
Last weekend, I took my teen daughter birthday present shopping for her friend. We happened into an art store and after combing the aisles I spotted a long roll of paper that resembled a lightsaber. Well of course I picked it up and pretended to be Darth Vader. How could I not? It was just too perfect an opportunity. Here I am, having fun, and when I go whack my daughter with my “lightsaber” her eyes are bugging out of her head. “Mom, shh, you are being loud,” she whispers. Someone is going to hear you. So, I say, “Who cares?” Well folks, it would seem that I have officially crossed over to the dark side. I’m now an embarrassment to my teenagers. How and when did this happen?
This newspaper’s future
Don’t think we didn’t know in advance that messing with your newspaper wouldn’t get you excited and upset. We changed our typefaces and style sheets and moved things around a bit.
Idlewood 3: New year news
Happy New Year, fellow Healdsburgers. Mother Nature threw quite the party this January. Please send your news items (waterlogged or not) to IDlewood 3…” at [email protected]. Idlewood was the original telephone exchange for Healdsburg. Now, “Hedda Healdsburg” wants to know all!
Country Roads: Goblets and squash
What do you do with 200 pounds of winter squash? Some options: build a wall to keep out rising streams or overflowing rain gutters; bake lots of pies and sell them at the farmers’ market; store them in a dry, cool cellar for “earthquake supplies.”
Wheel of Light, February 2017
Each year there are four eclipses. Two occur during a new Moon, when the Moon blocks the Sun. Two occur at the full Moon, when the earth blocks the Moon. This month there will both kinds of eclipses. The full Moon lunar eclipse takes place on February 10 at 22 degrees of Leo and the new Moon solar eclipse happens on February 26 at 8 degrees of Pisces. The eclipse is most significant and impactfull when those degrees are occupied by a planet in one’s natal chart or if those degrees are on the angles of one’s natal chart.
Arts & Entertainment
Yale Whiffenpoofs to land on Raven stage Sunday
The very name “Whiffenpoofs” is whimsical, but followers of the collegiate music space know that the repertoire and reputation of this Yale University a cappella group is anything but laughable. Sure there are old Yale drinking songs, certainly a bit of jazz-era energy, as well as more modern pop. But are they classical? And what exactly is a “whiffenpoof” anyway?
