COVID-19 has swept into our lives in devastating ways. Across the country, it single-handedly has brought so much of life as we know it to a stand-still. If you live in the SF Bay Area, you’re now under a “shelter-in-place” directive. Everything closed. Everyone home. We’re all washing our hands and hording toilet paper. Stress…
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Respite: November Days of Gratitude
I have to make this quick. We are pressed for time as we’re trying to leave early so as maybe to avoid traffic. Who am I kidding? We’re leaving Southern California and I don’t know if there is ever a good time to avoid traffic here. It’s getting that way in the Bay Area, too,…
In search of peace on Rt. 88
When you need to find respite — to find that place of calm — Rt. 88 through gold country California, might just be the road to take you there. On this two-lane country road, expansive, golden fields dotted with dark green oaks, wind through Jackson and then Pioneer. The road climbs up into forests of…
Barbara Ganias Comstock 