It’s full spring in Napa Valley. The vines are unfurling their leaves, fluffing the vineyards into expanses of productive greenery as Vintage 2019 gets underway. The weather is cycling from pleasant to glorious, wineries are staging the first of their…
Recently my husband shared with me an article by Mike McQuade in the New York Times, the gist of which was that the cleaner we make our environment, the less our immune systems operate the way they’re designed to. You’ve…
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.” — Ernest Hemingway reddit.com Hemingway made it a habit to stand while writing. So did Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Soren Kierkegaard, and Stan Lee. It…
Actually, I know when it started. I began my long-anticipated winter break, one of the primo perks of a job in education, on December 19. On December 20, my nose launched its campaign of germ warfare. Its initial attacks were…
Out with the old, in with the new. And you know what has gotten really, really old in the past year or two or three? Division. And I don’t mean the arithmetic kind. Our leadership, or whoever is running things…