Worthy to Print Column | Coming Together
So after last week where I told you of the wonder of living in Gonzales, you might have thought I was just putting words on the paper, and you would have been right. I do love this town, and now I want to illustrate...
Letter to the Editor | Helping Customers Reduce Energy Costs as Natural Gas Prices Rise This Winter
To the Editor:
West Coast natural gas prices have been rising this winter, and PG&E wants our customers to know their energy bills are likely to rise as a result.
PG&E does not control the market prices we pay for natural gas, and we donāt mark...
Worthy to Print Column | Time for Reflection
You knew it was going to happen. Whatās that? You didnāt know. Well, let me tell you itās true! Last week I got on my soapbox about taxes, and since itās April, why not continue my rant.Ā
Instead of working on helping āWe the People,ā...
Window on the World Column: Health and Sickness During Corona
During your wedding vows, in less than good health and in slightly better health and all that jazz, you are so caught up in the romanticism of the prospect of ā hopefully ā being together forever, you donāt really think about the sickness part...
Worthy to Print Column | Early Daysā¦
A few weeks ago I asked you, dear readers, about your first memory. I wanted to know who might be reading my words and allow me to know how you might have grown up. No name, no address or anything really that you donāt...
Funny Papers Again Column | Greetings From the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chippewa Nations
Whenever a case arises with this over-abused old frame of mine and a visit to Mee is required; I am always quick to tell as many staff in both hospital and clinic who will listen that my first visit to Mee Memorial Hospital, now...
Window on the World Column | International Flying With Covid
It was supposed to be just a distant memory by now; an inconvenient blink in the eye of all our busy lives and exciting plans. I think we imagined that, once the vaccine was available, people would be scurrying to get it, racing in...
Window on the World Column | My Mapping Menu
Weāve been planning this road trip for a very long time. Too long. So long I thought it would never happen. I had every stop marked on my extra-large map of the country; never mind we were only going to be seeing a slice...






















