Valley Stories

Brookell

20 Feb 2020

Martha Needs Nature

and Nature Needs Martha

Gaia held out her hand and Giselle took it and stood up. The view of the incredible winter scene wavered a bit and suddenly they were in a beautiful meadow not far from the edge of a small town. Giselle gasped slightly, not just at the shifting scene, but...

ElizabethLinJohnson

9 Nov 2019

Chapter 3, Santa Clara Valley Before Silicon, A Poor Girl Faces the World

Poor girl is born in old farm house of mixed ancestery

  On the morning of June 8, 1950, I met the world in a ramshackle farmhouse surrounded by a pear orchard. As I gasped for air, then screamed to announce the importance of my arrival, the Mexican midwife carried me outside and bathed me in cool water from...