Window on the World Column | Words and Memories With Friends
We have been playing online āWords with Friendsā for a good while now. When she first started, I could beat her rather successfully. Nowadays, Iām lucky to win the odd game. She always was a clever-clogs. One of the great wonders of the modern...
Funny Papers Again Column | My Efforts to Outsmart Hercule ā and Two Blasts From the Past
I am attempting to solve a mystery before a world-famous detective, once again, solves it. The task is not an easy one, but I feel I am up to it given my years of experience; reading experience, that is. I have for more years...
Window on the World Column | Training It
I landed at London Heathrow Airport, as I have done many times these past 37 years. I checked into my fave airport hotel ā the Hilton Garden Airport Hotel at Terminal 2 and relaxed for the rest of the day, culminating in a delicious...
Funny Papers Again Column | People Become Picklers and Parents Become Dancers
When Sen. Anna Caballero was in King City recently, she presented a check of $400,000 to City Manager Steve Adams and Recreation Coordinator Andrea Wasson and cut the ribbon on the newly acquired ladder fire truck, which officially put the rig on active duty....
Guest Column | Take Steps to Achieve Fitness Resolutions
Statistics show that nearly 3 in 10 Americans actually make New Yearās resolutions in an effort to hold themselves accountable. Such a practice is not new. Some 4,000 years ago, the ancient Babylonias made annual promises to the gods to pay their debts and...
Funny Papers Again Column | Bon Giorno! Day 1 in Switzerland
Every fine time is far more enjoyable if first one experiences some minor hardships along the way. As I write I am sitting on a second-floor balcony at the Hotel Lake Maggiori in Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland. It is 10 minutes after four in the...
Worthy to Print Column: Is Everything All Right?
Is everything OK? I mean no one has gone bonkers about having to stay inside? Of course there are a lot of things not getting done since we canāt do a lot of the things we took for granted getting done. My youngest said...
Worthy to Print Column | What Is Your Legacy?
Do you have a favorite TV channel? I have just about given up on the major stations and news from anyone. I happen to like the Fox channel. I started watching Fox back when Bill OāReilly was on and then he got kicked off...




















