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PAT NEAL: Our disappearing ferns
IT ALL STARTED with an attempt to share in nature’s bounty and celebrate the harvest of wild foods.…
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PAT NEAL: Bring back the spawners
IT WAS AN early morning on the river. I was launching a boat in the dark.
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PAT NEAL: Getting along in the country
AN AWFUL LOT of city folks are moving to the country these days and they want to know…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Saying yes, and writing again
SUCH A PLEASURE to talk with my friend Alice after a series of emails. Hearing Alice Derry’s voice…
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POINT OF VIEW: The problems with I-976
TAXES TAKE A cut out of our personal and business resources and of course no one likes paying…
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POINT OF VIEW: Vehicle tabs should be at flat $30 fee
HOW MANY TIMES do we, the people, have to vote for $30 vehicle tabs before our “representatives” respect…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Solace in community
THE STARS, OR in this case a memory and a gathering, align this month.
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PAT NEAL: Anatomy of an orchard
IT WAS DAYLIGHT at the homestead but I was more than a little late for breakfast.
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PAT NEAL: It is never too late to panic
AS A STUDENT of wilderness survival, it has always amazed me how often wilderness survival experts offer the…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Summer’s end on bus, plane, boat, train
THE EPIC JOURNEY began on my very first mode of public transport: BART, the behemoth that opened 47…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Of horses, fun and watermelon
WHAT DO YOU think of when someone says “watermelon-eating contest?”
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Lines, stories, movies: They’re all connected
“MY NORMAL FRIENDS say to me, ‘Oh, no, you have to stand in those lines.’ But that’s the…
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PAT NEAL: Tips on getting lost
IT WAS THAT great American philosopher Daniel Boone who said, “I have never been lost but I was…
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PAT NEAL: Things could be worse
THERE ARE FEW sounds more comforting than the steady drumming of heavy rain on the roof.