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No matter the reason you’ve been itching to dig up some earth – from saving money to getting to know your neighbors through a community garden – we’ve sussed out the details to get you from digging dirt to harvesting your bounty.

SAN JOSE– Coach Todd McLellan was not behind the bench Tuesday night when the San Jose Sharks took the ice at HP Pavilion for the first time in 18 days.

When I chose to retire a few years back, many of my friends smiled skeptically and told me it wouldn’t last long. I shrugged off those doubters; after all, there were plenty of things to keep me busy. But you know, I really couldn’t stay away. I tried relief work, filling in for colleagues who wanted a day off. And, of course, I kept writing this column and doing some radio work here and there.

Something I get asked a lot is “How did you start writing a newspaper column?” Or, “Do you ever run out of stuff to write about?”

One hundred and 50 years ago, after a wet California winter, you might have needed a flat-bottomed boat to cross the Central Valley from the Coast Range to the Sierra foothills. Today, dams retain that water, then channel it through a network of dikes. Of the estimated three to five million acres of original California wetlands, only 450,000 acres remain – a reduction of 85 to 90 percent.

“Among other common lies, we have the silent lie – the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.”