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Edition No. 1 of a weekly check-in with Robert Guerrero as he

Gilroy's Garlic Festival is only three weeks away, and I've been

Don Christopher, the founder of the country’s biggest garlic producer, Christopher Ranch, started 60 years ago in Gilroy with 12 acres of the spicy bulb, sandwiched between his main crops, lima beans and sugar beets.  The man who was then known as the king of garlic, Joe Gubser, asked Christopher to plant some bulbs for him. He sold the garlic to Gubser for 9 cents a pound.

I need to complain about excessive open house real-estate signs

Harry Albert stands at the lectern, eyes focused on his pen.

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.

SAN JOSE

The late fall 50-degree chill in the air couldn't keep dozens of bundled-up people from celebrating the Downtown Chanukah Candlelighting at the Third Street Promenade in Morgan Hill Tuesday. The lighting of the menorah on the seventh night of Chanukah was sponsored by Congregation Emeth.