Tag: Opinion

The inmate trainers at CTF explained to me that dogs in the TAILS program are immediately crate trained when they arrive in the facility...

I often tell people how difficult it can be to put 1,000 words together every week with the expectation those words will somehow make...

You have to admit, I haven’t glorified the actions of those that would like to see us at the bottom of the ocean. However,...

Driving into the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad and you are reminded of how a secure institution can be. Acres of barren land, no...

No matter how I may wish to deny I am old, at two years and seven decades it is nonetheless a fact and, having...

They say that the “Good Die Young.” I don’t know about all of the young, but I do know that there is one young man...

We should go, shouldn’t we? Shouldn’t we go? Life happens when you are busy making other plans. And isn’t that always the way. My...

I have for many years been a reader of biographies, a habit I got into way back in the early 1960s after my parents...

In 1986 I worked for California’s Employment Development Department, where I processed amnesty seekers under President Ronald Reagan’s landmark immigration reform law called Immigration...

I’m not great with anniversaries, birthdays and the like. When I say I’m not great, what that means is that I have an incredible...