Can We Come Out Now?
Ready or not, it’s a different world My friends and I take a table outside and scan the posted QR code Three-dimensional menus are largely a casualty of the pandemic. It’s a small but pervasive shift, one of the reminders that…
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Under the Heat Dome
We fled the California fires, and here we are Living in Napa Valley was a dream come true, at first In 2014 when we moved to the lovely little Wine Country town of St. Helena, we kept pinching ourselves. Here we…
Live Like Everyone’s Watching
The weirdness of selling the home we live in Our house doesn’t feel like our house right now We’re selling it — in fact, it goes live on the market in a couple of days — and that means it’s no longer our home, our…
The Post-Inaugural Letdown Effect
The Republic stands, but I slump I didn’t give much thought to how I’d feel after the Inauguration I mean, how could I? There was just so much going on. Every single day since at least Halloween has been a…
Becoming Climate Refugees
Trying to escape the California wildfires It’s the second time we’ve evacuated in four days We drive north and east, away from Napa Valley, away from the flames, away, we hope, from the noxious smoke. But as the highway ascends into the…