On Saturday, Dec. 6, 1941, Napa was a sleepy little agricultural town with a population of about 8,000 people. Like the rest of the country, its hard-working citizens were just beginning to recover from a disastrous 12-year depression. Life, as Napa's citizens knew it, was beginning to look good again and the future was looking brighter.

Be it convergence or clairvoyance, it was interesting to identify the connection between two events that occurred this week on the global and local fronts.

Are you the kind of wine buyer who walks into a shop, peruses the various wines and confidently makes a selection?

Are you the kind of wine buyer who walks into a shop, peruses the various wines and confidently makes a selection?

A few weeks ago I was watching a popular television quiz show hosted by an all-knowing moderator when one question really caught my attention.

California cabernet sauvignons wowed the folks in Bordeaux last week when 12 of the state’s wines were tasted by French judges, including representatives of such notable Chateaux as Pichon-Lalande, Cheval-Blanc and Leoville Barton.

Our garage is a wild, untamed space where the spiders and crickets live unmolested lives and the cats leave puddles of coughed-up grass and drag in lizards for disemboweling.

Organizing any closet can be a daunting task. Whether small or large, they tend to be crammed with so many items that it can be difficult to close the door.

Bonsai may be defined as a tree in a shallow pot, but that is like saying a Maserati is a nice car.

Dear Len & Rosie, My partner of the past 10 years passed away recently.

A number of new businesses have opened at the Spanish Flat Village Shopping Center at Lake Berryessa.

Recently I came across the wonderful story of Charles Schwab, the former President of U. S. Steel and the founder of Bethlehem Steel. The first time I heard this story was nearly 40 years ago, but I was reminded how simply elegant is its principle.