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When I graduated from high school, I went to Nanny College. While I attended classes, I lived with a family and helped take care of their little girl, and then their new baby. The sprawling ranch-style home was in a small, country-like neighborhood, sort of tucked into the bigger, more city-like city of Sacramento, and it was on a sizeable lot with a large yard and pool.

I’ve had the privilege the last week of shepherding some dear friends on their first visit to Sonoma County.

100 years ago – September 12, 1918

All of us parents out there know that driving in the car is sometimes a golden opportunity to exchange good conversation with our teenagers. It’s also a fabulous eavesdropping exercise if they are exchanging their own words or talking about something online or antics of mutual friends.

Fairies are a part of folklore in many cultures. Typically, they are spritely, small creatures with magical qualities and a penchant for frivolity and trickery. Peter Pan is not a fairy, though Tinker Bell is...

Later this month, on April 16, the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, arts and letters will be handed out and we wanted to give you the “scoop” on the announcement of the winners. This newspaper, again, will not be part of the finalists’ list.