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Morgan Hill
December 4, 2025

Painful year brings forth new sense of self

With just days left in 2013, I’ve been ruminating on the past year and wondering what the future may hold. Personally, it’s been a tumultuous year and a half and I’m hopeful the winds will begin to shift come 2014.

Ring in New Year with delicious drinks

“End of the year” reviews are a wonderful tradition. As we look back on the passing year, it gives us perspective while we look forward to a new beginning and new year. To complete my first full year writing “The Flavor Chronicle,” I offer a few recipes for celebratory nonalcoholic beverages.

New Year’s resolutions for No-no Lulu – from doggy sister

Hello, it's me, Kirby the dog. Every year the human female allows me to write her holiday column. Well, I'm telling you, I'm fed up with this. I mean, I sit and type - without opposable thumbs, mind you - and all I get is a piece of dried-out sweet potato for my effort.

Oh boy! There are so many blessings

As one of my favorite characters, Ralphie, would say, “Oh boy. It’s almost Christmas and I know I’ll get the BB gun I asked Santa Claus to bring me. Oh boy!”

It’s certainly not all about the raviolis at Christmas, but then again …

Every year when the discovery takes place, it takes me back to a happy childhood. We were free, unlike today it seems. Bikes were key. We could hop on and ride, ride, ride – to play basketball, or swim at Garm and Ang’s house or go to school.

Getting Out: Buy my eBook

Warning: What follows is shameless self-promotion – a crass sales pitch intended to lure you to buy my new ebook "Measureless Mountain Days: A Father and Son on the John Muir Trail." In exchange for your indulgence (and $3.99), I promise a lively read, and maybe the temptation to walk the John Muir Trail yourself.

LDS Church promotes self-reliance

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are a highly respected part of their communities throughout the United States. They hold important positions in government, business, education and other fields. But this was not always the case.

The ‘unaffordable’ Care Act

Millions of Americans have been watching our federal government wrestle with the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obama Care. One side is touting the need for major medical reform that will insure millions of people who currently do not have coverage. They have produced hundreds of commercials and held countless press conferences speaking to our need for humanity and sensibility.

‘Little Women’: A delightful visit to another time

Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” has never been out of print since it was first published in 1868. It was translated into a least a dozen foreign languages during Alcott's life and can now be found in 50 different languages including Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian and Urdu.

A few Grinch gripes; let’s clearly understand what the Brown Act says

Well, I was going to write a Grinch column and complain about all the pins and fasteners in men’s dress shirts, the cyclists wearing invisible king’s crowns who ride three and four abreast in the roadway and sneer if you honk after waiting for a couple of minutes, or those who fumble at the grocery checkout counter pulling out one coin at a time to get the exact change while six people are in line ... but enough, I’m not really in the mood and that’s a good thing.

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