July 4th, 2009 02:02pm

Sonoma County Book Festival Benefit

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Celebrate Jonah Raskin’s most recent book, Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California,” at an Aug. 1 benefit for the Sonoma County Book Festival. The year’s event takes place at Windrush Farm in Petaluma. Not only will Raskin read from his part memoir, part travel guide to gardening, eating, and sipping in Sonoma County, but the afternoon event includes culinary as well as literary pleasures. Brick … Read More »
July 4th, 2009 01:12pm

Growing More Beatiful: An Artful Approach to Personal Style

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Susan Bono, the Petaluma publisher of Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narative,  recently edited a new book about personal sytle, Growing More Beautiful: An Artful Approach to Personal Style. The new book by Sonoma County’s Jennifer Robin, also a painter, fashion consultant, and author of  Clothe Your Spirit: Dressing for Self-expression, is aimed at women who feel abandoned by the beauty and fashion industry, Bono told me. “The idea of … Read More »