Tag: Columnist
Window on the World Column | The Olden Days of Newsies...
The day I started work at the newspaper was Halloween 1991. I remember that day so well, because the whole building was decorated in...
Funny Papers Again Column | ‘For a Better World, What Would...
If I were a cleverer wordsmith, I am sure I could come up with the right phrase, or adage, to convey how a bad...
Window on the World Column | The Full Moon
When you start the week at the early morning water aerobics class at the Soledad pool, you go out the gate like a champ,...
Funny Papers Again Column | On the Big Stage We All...
William wrote: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one...
Worthy to Print Column | Our 50th State
This morning when I woke up I was feeling pretty good, all things being equal. For some reason as I lay there I kept...
Funny Papers Again Column | ‘Open, Sesame!’ Sez Me
I have before me a smattering of paper scraps with an odd accumulation of notes, which will, one hopes, render up a readable column....
Worthy to Print Column | Another Day in Paradise
How was your week? Mine was pretty great. Shoot, it should have been. After all, I was turning 80, and if you can’t have...
Window on the World Column | The Super Fan
It was football season 2011. I still have the ticket stub for no reason, back when they gave you paper tickets. It was going...
Funny Papers Again Column | The Easy and Hard Way Ideas...
“Television commercials are an assault upon the senses and an insult to intelligence.”
The sentence appears quoted and italicized because I think it is a...
Worthy to Print Column | Love of the Ocean
My wife is pretty much the center of my life. She is constantly giving me gifts of items that I may have mentioned in...
