Green Valley Moments

Famed defense attorney Johnnie Cochran is dead.
R.I.P:

If the heart won’t stir,
You must inter.
I filched this from here.

Now, here’s a thought for this blog. We don’t have a “city” as such, but there are issues which could should be discussed outside of traditional media.
Political Web logs have proven to be a new watchdog of politicians and journalists, but the Napa Valley has been immune — until recently.

A month-old Web log created by […]

I just checked my Mother out of a Tucson Hospital. She was admitted five days ago with a red and swollen leg. Her leg is improved. That’s the good news.
She now has a rash which nurses and doctors attribute to the sheets on her bed. She had a hearing aid one day; it was gone […]

“I want to give away some iPod Shuffles. I’d like to give away at least one a month and possibly one every two weeks for the rest of 2005 if that’s okay with everybody…”
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I have found that I require seven hours of sleep a night, but lately I have been averaging only six hours. What to do?
Getting a good night’s sleep is hard for many adults and that often means poorer health, lower productivity on the job, more danger on the roads and a less vibrant sex life

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If you’re thinking about buying long-term care insurance, here’s what you should know before you buy.
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When I first started practicing law, a wise old lawyer once told me that I would try many cases. Sometimes I would have the law on my side; sometimes I would have the facts on my side.
When you have the law on your side, “Pound the law!”
When you have the facts on your side, […]

Call them silver-collar workers.
Home Depot joined with AARP last February to say it welcomed “mature workers” and was swamped with inquiries.
AARP has signed up 12 more major companies, including Walgreens, Borders, Pitney Bowes and MetLife (the full list), that are actively seeking to recruit older workers.
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I didn’t need to read this!
A man’s waist size seems to be a stronger indicator of diabetes risk than the body-mass index, new research suggests.
Johns Hopkins scientists reviewed data from 27,270 men tracked over 13 years and put them into five groups according to their waist size; 884 of the men had diabetes.

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We were invited to a friends’s home Sunday evening. That’s not newsworthy, but what followed after we arrived was.
The guest of honor was Bill Danoff. Never heard of him?
He just happened to write co-write a song a few years ago, and John Denver recorded it. Ever here of “Take Me Home Country Roads? Bill […]