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Recently, I was asked, “What is the value of your library card?”

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Happy March from the staff at your local library. Like all of you, we are busy remembering all of the milestones of the last year. The library's plans for safe, limited reopening in-person are progressing and we hope to provide information shortly. In the...

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We keep saying we are living in “unprecedented” times. Last week, it was 130 degrees in Death Valley and two hurricanes swirled toward the Gulf of Mexico at the same time, both being historical events. By the middle of the week there were 375 wildfires across California that burned 400,000 acres, a landmass the size of Rhode Island. Big Basin Redwoods, California’s oldest state park, was gutted by fire and Healdsburg’s Daniels School on Mill Creek that had survived 136 years of fire seasons was consumed by the Walbridge Fire.

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.

Twenty years ago, December 1999, I asked my fellow physicians in Healdsburg what they thought were the major medical advances of the twentieth century. Their responses were extensively covered in the Healdsburg Tribune.