Health-care concerns unite vonKaenel family at the holidays
The 5-year-old twins are beautiful, energetic, smart, rambunctious and … profoundly deaf. My 84-year-old mother is, well, she’s 84 years old.
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Time is not money
Advice to a reader to slow down and listen.
Sacramento Police fight gang violence with empathy
While confrontations with police have grabbed headlines recently, many police find opportunities to work with the community to create change.
Listen deeply, love widely, be transparent
Joey’s end-of-the-year advice for herself—and everyone else.
Who was he dating online when?
Advice to a reader to question her appetite for destruction.
BFF? Not so much.
Advice to a reader to take a hard look at her friend—and herself.
I gave my wife a goat
A donation to a nonprofit was a gift that really meant something.
Who’s your mommy?
Advice to a reader to ditch the mama’s boys.
Take action for the climate
Sacramento’s new Climate Action Plan urges sustainability and conservation.
An education
Joey’s advice on how to stop the jealousy and learn to love the outcome.
Finding common ground
How could I give a shout-out to Bank of America given the role of big banks in our country’s financial meltdown?
Volunteer heroes
Chillin’ with Junior Honorary Mayor Clay Gaunt and Grandma Curry.
How to lose friends and alienate people
Advice to readers to take control and avoid the drama.
Destroy the lies that bind you
Hot sex, hot fights and the hard, cold truth about kicking out an ex.
60,000 foster children in need of adoption
Names of 60,000 foster kids are read aloud on National Adoption Awareness Day.
Siren swan song
Advice for a paranoid reader who might get ditched.
Credit where it’s due
The Occupy movement storms an Oakland Bank of America branch; the bank faces public-relations nightmare; the bank gives money to Sacramento-area heroes and nonprofits.