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 to be a game in San Francisco, indeed, the famous Candlestick Park. I had already attended an American baseball game...
Worthy to Print Column | One Manās Junk Is Another Manās Treasure
I spent most of the day on Saturday cleaning out my garage, and I donāt know if I will finish before the weekend is over. Funny how I keep watching the detritus get taller and taller. I keep telling myself that I will be...
Guest Column | 5 Things for June from Monterey County Free Libraries
Happy June! At Monterey County Free Libraries (MCFL), we are really excited because itās time for the Summer Reading Club. Summer is the best time of year at the library since we have so many fun programs and prizes.
When you sign up for the...
Guest Column | Salinas Valley Recycles Is Changing ā Always
Iād like to start this piece with a quote: āIn 2023, we must come together again in partnership for the planet. Businesses, governments and civil society are equally responsible for taking action against the climate crisis and lighting the spark to accelerate change towards...
Funny Papers Again Column | Notes on Pomona to KC After a Rain to an Oklahoma Grift
We are now one week past the Autumn Equinox, the day defined as having an equal number of hours of sunlight and moonlight. Autumnās twin is the Vernal Equinox in March. The opposite of these days of equality are the Summer and Winter solstices...
Funny Papers Again Column | Diagonals and Rounds and Painted Walls
As reported in last weekās edition of the Rustler, the City of King has altered the direction of parking on a section of Broadway as a means of providing a safer downtown environment. All the ins and outs of this trial run can be...
Funny Papers Again Column | MOW, MOW, MOW Your Car, Gently Oāer the Roads; or Merrily Make a Call
Since the beginning of mankindās existence upon this colorful spinning orb we call home, there are established a few universal constants relative to all persons, among which include water, food and shelter. Once those three necessities are established, humans are then free to engage...
Letters to the Editor for Week of April 5
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Funny Papers Again Column | Ringo and Sara and Lisa and Steve and Lynn and Andy and Oliver and Jeanette: Rock On!
There is something about eye contact that lets two people know that for just a split second, just a flicker of time, there has been a meeting of minds, a very brief acknowledgment of each otherās existence. I had just such an encounter last...




















