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The 2020 Wine Business Monthly’s Salary Survey can be viewed here: Keep in mind that the salary information was put together in February 2020, right before the pandemic brought many businesses to a standstill. Since then the pandemic has had a dramatic effect on employment in the wine industry, as well as many other industries. […]
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What happens when a botanist gets her hand on a book about the meaning of flowers? She gets one of her quickest reads in years. The Book: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is a novel about young Victoria, a girl who is in the foster care system in the San Francisco Bay Area. The story
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Getting out into nature is my favorite way to recharge. I like to pedal along local trails, paddle in our local waterways and hike or run in the hills whenever possible. But I’ve never thought to self power myself over 4,000 miles of North America’s wildest areas. The Sun is a Compass is Caroline Van Hemert’s story
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Everything I do now is premeditated. If I’m planning to go to the store. I have to think about what hours are the least crowded, what I need, is there anything I need to stock up on, and do I have a mask? If I want to go for a hike I have to think
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This past weekend found me sitting in a tiny collapsible REI Flexlite chair by Loon Lake in the Desolation Wilderness, catching up on my reading. First I plowed through three months of Wine Spectators. Then my backlog of Food & Wine. What a culture shock to read these glossy mags while avoiding COVID in the beauty of the wilderness. The
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