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Potted plants may lend an air of lush comfort to a home, but

The San Francisco 49ers' future at quarterback looks bright

Recently, I started reading What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami, the Japanese novelist. The book is about how running informs Murakami's writing and how writing informs his running. If you are a runner or a writer, or both, you will enjoy the insights that he provides, which are part running thoughts, part writing thoughts, and part philosophical musings on both. But at one point near the beginning of the book, he mentions that people often ask him what he thinks about as he runs. He says, "I don't have a clue." Of course, he says, if it's cold outside, he is thinking about that, or if he's sad, he might think about sadness, or if he's happy, he might think about happiness. But, overall, he says, "I don't think much of anything worth mentioning."He just runs in a void; more precisely, he runs "to acquire a void." This sounds to me as if he uses running as a form of meditation, a moving meditation where he tries to stay in the moment and not really think at all.

We know that golf is an individual game, but there is no sport

In the Nov. 7 Dispatch, referring to Measure F, Mayor Don Gage was quoted as saying “there are a significant number of issues we don't have the money to fix.”

Idina Menzel brings a new twist to her career in “If/Then” as a newly divorced woman looking for a job and starting a new life in New York. Menzel (originally in “Rent”) is best known for her Tony award winning Elphaha in ‘Wicked’ and more recently her popular award rendition of “Let It Go” in Disney’s “Frozen".

The holidays are at hand. The joy and festivities of the season reach a fever pitch as family and friends begin to arrive for their annual visit. If you recall, it was about day two or three of their visits last year before the walls of your house appeared to be closing in. Remember? At the same time, you felt a slight rush of anxiety and an unusually rapid heart rate.

Honestly, I can’t imagine being on the school board. The way funding is set up – with the bulk of the money going to the state, then trickling down (yes, an exaggeration for demonstration purposes follows) from Assemblyman Luis Alejo’s office to the Gilroy Unified School District, is ridiculous. Every time the state can’t get its financial act together – and really that’s virtually always now – the district gets the screws put to it. Deferred payments, surprise holdbacks, delays and more attached strings than you could dream up, all handcuff the local people trying to do their educational jobs. It’s a nightmare. It’s no way to run a school district, it’s no way to run a state. But if we keep re-electing people to the Assembly and state Senate without virtually any scrutiny, then we get what we deserve because the local school district has precious little control over its own finances. The state giveth and the state taketh away and the GUSD trustees are simply a speck of dust riding the state’s whims. The saddest part is, there’s no revolution demanding wholesale reform on the horizon. It’s a tragic reality plaguing California.