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The Mountain Gardener | Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year 2026

December 23, 2025

Strictly Business | A Year-End Gratitude List of Women in Business

Fitness | Healthy Habits Rather Than New Year’s Resolutions

The Mountain Gardener | ’Twas the Night Before Christmas 2025—A Poem for Gardeners

Finance | Planning for the Price of Power

The Mountain Gardener | Watering Tips for Hot Weather

June 13, 2024

After a lovely, mild spring, summer weather arrived with a vengeance. My poor plants were thinking they lived in England and then were rudely...

Strictly Business | Imagine

June 7, 2024

Last month, I wrote about the fast fashion industry. Unfortunately, typos happen, but one typo can change the context of an entire story and...

Plain Talk About Food | Hand Pies and More

June 6, 2024

Hand pies are such an ingenious way to create an individual pie without the problems of serving and the opportunity of various fillings. These...

The Mountain Gardener | The Cutting Garden

June 6, 2024

The assignment: create a cutting garden. For a designer this is the best kind of request. Until about 100 years ago, one of the...

Finance | What Is Financial Life Planning?

May 31, 2024

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” —Socrates I am an evangelist for financial life planning! I preach it, practice it and donate it to...

TherapyWorks | Understanding and Addressing Anxiety in Kids

May 30, 2024

Children can get anxiety just like adults. Whether it’s adjusting to the changes at school or home, social anxiety, separation anxiety, or generalized anxiety...

The Mountain Gardener | Gardening Tips for Sandy Soil

May 30, 2024

Many years ago I started writing a book about gardening in the Santa Cruz Mountains. One of many interesting subjects I researched was the...

Mayor’s Message | Like a Good Neighbor… Not!

May 24, 2024

When Scotts Valley City Manager Mali LaGoe suggested hosting a community meeting to address the ongoing wildfire threat and the accompanying insurance crisis, there...

Plain Talk About Memorial Day | Where Have All the Buddy’s Gone?

May 24, 2024

It was in 1955 when the Kingston Trio first sang “Where Have All the Young Men Gone,” written by Pete Seeger about all the...

Fitness | How Fitness Keeps You Young

May 23, 2024

Have you seen certain folks that look much older than they are? Their skin looks weathered and dry, their posture is tilted forward sitting...

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The Mountain Gardener | Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year 2026

Strictly Business | A Year-End Gratitude List of Women in Business

Fitness | Healthy Habits Rather Than New Year’s Resolutions

The Mountain Gardener | ’Twas the Night Before Christmas 2025—A Poem for Gardeners

Finance | Planning for the Price of Power

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