She was out of place touching our budget with her limited experience. We need every dollar we asked for and the capital requests were key areas of focus by the board and the council.

My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.

We most certainly feel it was a worthwhile effort. We're proud of the effort we made to defend our neighborhood and, we believe, the city of Davis as a whole. In part, we felt at the time, it was the only recourse we had left.

You have to live to really know things, my love

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

We have a number of seniors on the team, some who didn't get a lot of experience last year. And, I believe we're a lot better than our 12-12 record would indicate.