San Anselmo

A friend I’ve known since 1973 from San Anselmo brought bouquets from her garden, and my next-door neighbor brought me art supplies.

Now 32, he has earned a master’s degree in environmental science and policy and works as the climate action coordinator for the California towns of San Anselmo and Fairfax.

Kelly Schmidt, 52, spent 25 years working in the newborn I.C.U. at a hospital near her home in San Anselmo, Calif. She was drawn to the job — she credits that to her mother’s work as a midwife and her own “innate sense to want to protect them and heal them” — and found herself doing whatever it took: riding in the back of ambulances, flying in transport planes over the Pacific or in helicopters through the Bay Area fog.

“My shop is fun and a lot of fun stuff walks in the door,” Steve Cabella, owner of the Modern i Shop in San Anselmo, told The Times.

Rozalind Cruz, 65, of Big Arm, Mont., and Orlandi, 72, of San Anselmo, Calif., have strongly disputed their sister’s accounts of their father’s alcoholism and abuse.