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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.

Looking for a lost pet or a new four-legged friend? See the list of incoming strays and the slideshow of cats and dogs available for adoption from the Sonoma Humane Society, Healdsburg Center.

100 years ago – November 14, 1918

So many of our flowering plants are taking either a long hike into dormancy or a short walk to the compost pile. We discover, by observation and experience, whether some need extraction while others only need to be ignored.

Why elections matter

My sister and nephew are in the throngs of his final college application process—the personal essay. This essay, they tell me, is a deal breaker. The 650 words have to wow the reader, impress them and bring them to tears. As my sister put it, “You have to look good on paper.”

As I’ve written in years past, my father Mich and I have a long history of playing in the Northern California Family Golf Championship on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Golf Course. This challenging tree-lined par three course is tucked away in the western part of the park on 47th and Fulton. We won the beginner’s fifth flight when I was 10 years old and we won the championship flight twice 25 years ago, in 1993 and 1994. 

In the early years of the United States, small groups of Christian believers were widely scattered in rural areas. This led to the need for itinerant pastors, known as “circuit riders,” who rode horseback from one small community to another to preach the gospel, minister to settlers and organize congregations.

As our nation just completed its 115th Congressional election with almost 120 million people voting amid thunderbolt issues such as immigration, national security and voter suppression, we took special notice of the unique viewpoint shared by a very small cohort — the continent’s Native Americans.

Looking for a lost pet or a new four-legged friend? See the list of incoming strays and the slideshow (above) of cats and dogs available for adoption from the Sonoma Humane Society, Healdsburg Center.