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May 21, 2026

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Blum: A lawyer’s evolution

For more than 47 years, I made my living as a divorce attorney and mediator. I was the one asking the questions, navigating the...
The Botanist's Assistant

Peggy Townsend shares her secrets with South Bay Writers

Writers are often given the time-tested advice, “Write what you know.” For Peggy Townsend, that’s exactly what she does. After 33 years as a...
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Channeling Twain pt. 2: Voyaging beyond the 101

I’m still reading the biography of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. The book is more than 1,000 pages long, so cut me some slack. My...

Only-children get their due in children’s book dreamed-up in Los Gatos...

Dominika Dvorzhak, a San Jose-based author and linguist, has released The One and Only, a rhyming children’s book illustrated by Vivien Sárkány that shines...
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Dinah’s Log: Rotary morning with the assessor; TherapyWorks ribbon-cutting; Kiss &...

On Oct. 2, at 7:15am sharp, Lotus Mahon led the Los Gatos Morning Rotary Club in the Pledge of Allegiance, after which some business...
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Author tackles chess and gender bias

Before Kyla Zhao became a talented adult fiction author in Silicon Valley, she was a young chess player in Singapore. Starting at age six,...
Kyla Zhao

Campbell resident penning novel set in 1940’s SF Chinatown

When the Los Gatan reached Campbell resident Kyla Zhao by phone, just weeks before the launch of her children’s novel about a girl who...
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Man charged with rape to be extradited from France

A 31-year-old Saratoga man accused of raping a woman and later admitting it can be extradited to the United States, a French court has...
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Introverts and social anxiety: what’s the difference?

Being an introvert and social anxiety are often confused, but they’re not the same. An introvert is a personality trait. Social anxiety is a...
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Campbell author’s sophomore novel in demand at Silicon Valley’s libraries

When Amanda Brown, author of "Legally Blonde," describes your book as “charming, compelling, and unapologetically fun,” and Balli Kaur Jaswal, author of Reese Witherspoon...

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