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My stem cell transplant has been put off for a while until I see some improvement of severe peripheral neuropathy in my feet and legs caused by the chemotherapy I received. So I am at home biding my time and able to continue writing for the foreseeable future. I’d like to begin today a three-part series on cancer.

Here is a Christmas carol medley written especially for readers here in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

**Asher Emil Taff was born at 1:52 p.m. June 17, 2010, to Tyra Elaine (Sampson) and Lee Taff of Scotts Valley. He weighed 9 pounds, 15 ounces at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.

EDITOR,

- Naomi Corinne Adams was born at 12:27 p.m. April 25, 2012, to Ingrid Corinne and Zachary Michael Adams of Scotts Valley. She weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

EDITOR,

It’s not often I write about someone in my own family. As the editor of a newspaper, I have to be judicious about how I use space in the paper — and about 98 percent of the time, I leave my family out of it.