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3 Shades of Blue

3 Shades of Blue, James Kaplan Goodreads: From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the […]

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson Goodreads: In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented […]

Alexander Valley School Christmas 2024

Truly the end of an era: our last year with a child performing in the AVS Christmas performance. But all the teachers told us last […]

South Burma

Chasing the boy down his favorite Sonoma County descent in Annadel…

New Lambs

Meeting this year’s batch of 4H lambs out in Graton this morning

‘Tis the Season!

We welcomed the Christmas season with tree decorating and an afternoon in San Francisco. First time any of us had ever skated on the Christmas […]

Powder Days in November?!

The rain last week in Sonoma County was incredible: flooded rivers, emergency school closures, canceled sports games… But it was a cold bomb cyclone that […]

Nudge

Nudge, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein Goodreads: Every day we make choices – about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s […]

First Snow

Making the most of the first snow of the season

Happy Halloween!

We started off this year’s Halloween week with a gracious invite next door to Sandi and Jim’s for a Halloween carving and pizza party, no […]

Red Bull Skyline

An afternoon at Twin Peaks with the boys watching the Red Bull Skyline skate comp

Surviving Death

Surviving Death, Leslie Kean Another $1 purchase at the Friends of the Healdsburg Library sale, blurb sounded interesting so I grabbed it… The first half […]

The Land Before Avocado

The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover A handful of copies of this were sitting out on the giveaway table at a client’s head office, so […]

Alden Vineyard Check

A cracking morning to be out checking vineyards with La Patrona!

A Promised Land

A Promised Land, Barack Obama Regardless of what you think of his politics, Obama is such an excellent writer. A Promised Land also provides an […]

Immanuel Boys in the Bay Area

Almost a year ago Rebecca Brown started quizzing me about summer camps on the east coast given her baby boy Max – who at 18 […]

The Last Weekend of Summer

With the Immanuel College boys visiting over Labor Day long weekend, the kids and I took them up to the Sierras for a dose of […]

Kirby Cove and San Francisco

We try to make a camping trip to Kirby Cove an annual adventure, in spite of how difficult it is to secure a campsite down […]