Celebrate the orange reason for the season
The month of pumpkins. Those globes of orange and gold fill the farms around us now, and provide endless goodies for consumption or decoration. From pies to pumpkin spiced drinks, tiny ones used as table décor to huge ones filling the back of a pickup, the pumpkin is celebrated throughout the country as a squash everyone can love.
Cannabis Country
A long view of the pot prohibition: interview with John Hudak, author of Marijuana: A Short History
A tribute to the many fathers who tend our region’s vineyards
As Father’s Day approaches, I wish to honor the fathers who tirelessly work our soils, prune our vines and harvest the grapes that bring depth of living and notoriety to our Sonoma County community.
In an article I wrote last year for Hispanic Heritage Month,...
Keeping the Faith: Mr. Sessions and the Bible
Recently, without intending to, I’m sure, the Attorney General of the United States generated a teaching moment on the improper use of Holy Scripture. He spoke in favor of our government’s policy toward immigrants and asylum-seekers, which included taking young children from their parents and not saying where they were being held.
This week in H’burg: Lavender
This Week in H’burg is a weekly column featuring photos and fun facts from local photographer Pierre Ratté. Each week we’ll feature a new photo from Ratté along with a fact about the subject matter of the photo.
Local golf news My bionic swing
This is not a woe is me article. It’s proof that with belief, a willingness to fail, and some encouraging words from friends and family members, anything is possible. Quick background—by now regular readers will likely know I lost my leg above the knee two years ago due to a bad infection. Back in November 2016 I woke up from my surgery in the Kaiser Santa Rosa I.C.U to the television declaring Donald Trump the new president of the United States. Let’s just say it wasn’t the best day of my life.
Winter pruning is for suckers
It’s winter. The occasional frost tips the blades of grass creeping slowly but surely through the brown, dry turf we don’t water all summer long, conserving water for the warm season crops of vegetables and orchard trees.
Fourth of July divided by two
We’re ready to celebrate another Fourth of July. Some years the fireworks displays seem to evoke extra patriotic stirrings, sometimes they just make extra noise. Which is it this year? Are we celebrating a United States of America or, are we agonizing over a Divided States of America?
