Window on the World Column | The Christmas Cracker
In England, the shops are now full of Christmas crackers — every shape and size and decoration of cracker can be found, lining the shelves of every grade of Christmas area — from low to high end. “Oh, you must take some crackers home!”...
Funny Papers Again Column | Today’s Opinion Column Offers Some Opinions About Opinions and the Opinionated
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world.”
I don’t recall whose words those are, if I...
Guest Column | Protecting the Most Precious Gift We Hold in Life — Our Health
In 1948, the World Health Organization defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” WHO published further clarifications in 1986, citing health as “a resource for everyday life, not the objective...
Window on the World Column | So Much Love
Anybody want a humongous house for 12 people, three nights in Bozeman, Mont.? A 49ers game with parking for four (oh, yes please … wait. I was outbid). How about a seven-day stay in Copper Mountain, Co.? A 48-hour wild pig hunt, maybe, or...
Worthy to Print Column | Let’s Go Truckin’
Did I ever tell you about my pickup? Oh, no need to reply. If I go one day without speaking about the “Green Machine,” I start to get the shakes and Lorraine runs out of the room. Don’t get me wrong, she knew that...
Worthy to Print Column | A Day in My Life
Now, where was I… Dick pulled up to me on the highway and told me to put it second gear and “Get on it!” So I slipped it up a gear and took off. I didn’t go very far because I saw a state...
Worthy to Print Column | They Can Do It to You!
I might have scared off a few readers with that title, but I think it is important for you to believe and understand what I am going to write. When I got out of the Army in 1974, I got a job as a...
Letter to the Editor | Join the Resistance Locally
To the Editor:
Donald Trump was elected U.S. president by the narrowest margin in history, which he claims is a mandate.
His foreign relations policies are making enemies of former friends. His economic policies are devastating the economy. Likewise, his deportation policies are upending the agriculture,...
Window on the World Column | Going Home Again
They say you can’t go home again. It’s my experience that sometimes you can, though it is certainly not for everyone. I was recently fortunate enough to be able to spend a week not only in my hometown, but in my home cottage where...
