Settling Down to a New Season

By Sandy Hu

Labor Day always seems a little sad to me, marking the unofficial end of summer. In San Francisco, our farmers’ markets are still bursting with heirloom tomatoes, peaches, nectarines and fresh herbs, but we know that soon all of nature’s largesse will gradually slip away.

We officially turn the page from a summer lifestyle that’s casual and informal, to settling back down to work and school. When my kids were growing up, I always tried to introduce a few new brown bag ideas to mark the start of the school year and to help all of us get back into the daily routine.

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Changing Seasons

By Lori Powell

I’m back at the farmers’ market again. I can’t get enough of it, partly because fall is in the air and another season is coming to a close.

Two more good months of eye catching produce and I’ve already developed the Ed Sullivans. (This TV show aired on Sunday night and it meant that when the show ended, it was bedtime, Monday was a school day and well, you were just a bit sad).

I LOVE the fall season but part of me feels a bit blue… kind of like when you anticipate a vacation and before you know it, you are living the last two days of it and you wonder where the beginning and middle went…you get the picture.

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