People come up to me on the street and ask how I manage to maintain my figure.

Though I often work on and even build desktop computers, I haven’t had much occasion to work on laptops, even though I own three of them.

It was with great sadness that I read about the closing of Vallerga’s market on First Street this past week.

Home repair and maintenance can sometimes be a rough and time-consuming ride. Here’s an example.

Bamboo has been used in Chinese gardens since 2000 B.C. The Japanese, who started trading with China around A.D. 1000, used bamboo to enhance temple gardens or the gardens of wealthy traders. Bamboos were chosen to symbolize a human relationship with nature.

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs

I love a good turkey hunt when there is a lot of activity and fun stories to share. Last week I had a chance to get together with good friends Dan Benedetti of Clover/Stornetta (who is now semi-retired) and Gary VanBrocklin of Colonial Saddle.

The growing potential of the wine market in India has been widely chronicled in the wine world, and the government of India is taking notice, too.

Hey, readers: Where do you recycle your batteries?

Some people find it hard to get away for a night or two because they have invalid parents, neurotic cats or rambunctious dogs that can't be left behind.

Mountain vineyards produce some of the valley’s best fruit, evidenced by the amazing wines made year after year from the harvest of the Brandlin Vineyard on Mount Veeder.

Dear Len & Rosie,

Let’s see if I understand this right. The rate for staying at a Napa County farmworker housing camp may jump a whole quarter to $11.75 a day, and this includes three meals a day.

After 14 years of construction and more than $30 million, Daryl Sattui’s dream, Castello di Amorosa winery, is open for tours and tasting in Calistoga by appointment.

Some say that your life is the sum of all your experiences. I buy that.