Opinion

“...fava beans and a nice Chianti.” —Hannibal Lecter After seeing the movie, “The Silence of the Lambs,” for many years I had a difficult time separating Anthony Hopkins from his role of (flesh-eating) Hannibal Lecter and cooking fava beans, which I really love to eat. I...

“Building costs are still high. There’s more we can do. This bill is nearly 50 provisions, but the problem is even bigger,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) stated. Congress submitted the “21st Century Road to Housing Act” for Presidential approval as Trump said the bill was...

I used to live in Bonny Doon where a huge Tasmanian Tree Fern grew without care on the “lower forty.” It was over 50 years old at the time of the fire having been planted by the original builder of the house. I guess...

Protect Felton Emergency Services I live near downtown Felton and 24 years ago, while pregnant, I experienced a medical emergency early in the morning. My husband called 911 and while he was still on the phone with the dispatcher, he could hear the sirens coming....

We hear a lot about the academic summer slide—the learning loss that can happen when kids are out of school for months at a time. But there’s another kind of summer slide that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: the mental health slide. And it...

I don’t grow corn in my small, shady garden, so I’m not sure how tall they’d be by now if I planted on May Day when the soil was 50 degrees, but that’s how the saying goes. This column isn’t about growing corn, however,...

Nothing piques my interest more than the roadside vegetable stands on Highway 1 while driving from Watsonville through Moss Landing and eventually diving through Castroville, the home of the Artichoke Festival. However, Hubby Norm did not feel my enthusiasm. Making this stop from this busy...

“The more you read, the more you’ll know. The more you know, the more you can earn.” —Dr. Seuss. About those Annuities Investopedia speaks of investments growing recently with market fears, yet “Only about 11%-12% of retirement-age households own annuities, and even fewer rely on them...

Think like a plant. The weather might be cool one day, really hot the next day. And your plants are growing like mad in order to reproduce, which is their life’s work. All this takes water, which is the elixir of life for us...

We often hear that multitasking is impossible. Experts tell us our brains are not wired to do several things at once. Then you meet someone like Danielle Ratliff and begin to wonder if she somehow missed the memo. When I arrived for our conversation, Danielle’s...