Margaret Burns
20 posts
Guest Column: The Decameron and sex
By Margaret S. Burns Special to the Express This morning a friend sent me an article suggesting that,…
March 20, 2020
The midnight oil: Sounds of silence
"I think we don’t realize how our lives are lived in sound."
September 26, 2019
Famed authors to help launch Yolo County Library Foundation
A celebration of the newly formed Yolo County Library Foundation will be held at The Palms Playhouse in…
April 10, 2019
Anonymous donor starts Yolo County Library Foundation
Mark Fink, Yolo County Librarian, announced the launch of a new foundation to support the Yolo County Library.
March 13, 2019
Winters public meeting held on cannabis cultivation in rural Yolo County
On Tuesday, June 12, Yolo County held the last of public meetings on the new ordinance that has…
June 21, 2018
On to my next chapter
Using hindsight, which is always 20/20, never blurry or out of focus, do you ever feel like there…
June 14, 2018
Winters Putah Creek Nature Park Fate Finally Fixed
Construction of the publicly accessible Putah Creek Nature Park was scheduled to be done in three phases. Phase…
May 30, 2018
The times they are a changin’
I feel so sad, bereft. Like the Winters I knew has slipped from underneath my feet and I…
May 30, 2018
Cannabis has changed since the ’60s
Marijuana today isn't what it was in the 1960s — it's not your grandmother's weed.
May 3, 2018
Swedish Death Cleaning
Several years ago I had a sudden change in my attitude to things we have acquired over the…
April 26, 2018