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A friend posted a challenge on Facebook to share how old you are, without using any numbers. I love taking trips down memory lane and letting the images, smells, feelings and sounds wash over me. It’s like pulling out old family albums or yearbooks and falling back through time to a time that feels as recent as yesterday. I let my mind wander back, and here’s a few of the things I could come up with.

The fire stories are extraordinary. The courage, determination and compassion shown by the North Bay — and beyond — has been heartwarming.

California may no longer be in a drought (for now), but we still have three primary goals to make water conservation a way of life:

It’s been five months since any Country Roads column has been written  and I’ve missed the bi-weekly walk with you. My reasons for not writing seemed important back in October, but that was during the threatening fires, drought, and uncertainty if Sonoma County would still be in existence once rains returned to dampen down and finish off the fires.

With the sight of blooming spring flowers, early morning treks to the farmers markets and casual afternoons at the many pandemic parklets and outdoor cafés, life in Sonoma County keeps opening a bit wider with each day. With many indoor spaces still closed or limited to public access, we are finding more things to do closer to nature and unconfined by walls, roofs and artificial lighting.

"The Tribune of the issues of February 14th and 21st, 1901, will demonstrate what the bright boys and girls of the Healdsburg High School are capable of in this line...." and other news from days gone by.

President Donald Trump is right; there is a national security emergency. It is a public health crisis, and it is ruining big swaths of our economy. Local communities like ours feel the impacts daily. If we don’t fund billions of major construction projects, this emergency will only get worse and worse.