Tag: Columnist
Funny Papers Again Column | Travels With Buddy — Part I
In a rare case of a column running too long, I offer this story as a two-parter…
One day I came home from school, it...
Worthy to Print Column | Get On Your Horse
I want to write today to speak to you about what I have been thinking as this old world of ours starts spinning out...
Window on the World Column | The Foxy Lover
He became quite the character of sorts, a fixture on the rather rough and tumble Nestles Road in Soledad, surrounded by rough ground and...
Funny Papers Again Column | You Meet the Darndest People in...
By my reckoning 140 years, give or take, of my family’s timeline was spent in prisons; the years accumulated by my parents, a brother...
Worthy to Print Column | Keep On Trucking
I’m sure that I have written often about my trusty old Ford pickup. It is an F-100 that I bought about a month after...
Funny Papers Again Column | Step Forward, Gentlemen, and Step Lively
I have set aside my regular column this week, a little story about me and my dog in Arroyo Seco, nicely told in my...
Worthy to Print Column | Secrets and Confession
I’m going to tell you a secret. Oh, it’s nothing nefarious or secretive. It’s just something I decided to do a few years ago...
Window on the World Column | No Doubting the Universe
“No doubt the universe will unfold as it should,” I tell my husband (sort of citing my favorite poem “Desiderata”). This was after we...
Funny Papers Again Column | Donate Yourself and Be a Volunteer
The definition of the word “volunteer,” according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, is a person who does a job without being paid for...
Worthy to Print Column | New Kind of Warfare
What if they started a war and nobody showed up? These words went to a paper I wrote about 40 years ago while stationed...
