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January 28, 2026

Window on the World Column: Waving across the valley

I cannot remember the first time I met her and her lovely husband. It seems to me that we were friends from the minute I arrived in the valley about 19 years now, so it was a good while ago; and likely at a...

Window on the World Column | The Blackout

Lucy Jensen
I must have missed the memo that day. It was an important one; the one that informed me that there would be no power at my house for three days. Perhaps it went to my husband’s phone and not my own, but somehow said...

Funny Papers Again Column | Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Not Snow

Steve Wilson
We live in a valley formed by mountain ranges to the east and west with an ocean bay 50 miles to the north and a coastline 25 miles westward; a geographical formation that climatologists designate a semi-arid area. By comparison to many areas of...

Guest Column | Protecting the Most Precious Gift We Hold in Life — Our Health

In 1948, the World Health Organization defined health as ā€œa state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.ā€ WHO published further clarifications in 1986, citing health as ā€œa resource for everyday life, not the objective...

Funny Papers Again Column | ā€˜Oh, Thou Most Horrid of All Days!’

I have never held back vociferous disparagement of this date on the calendar, and I have no intention of abandoning that position at this late time in life. Today, as you all are aware, is the Winter Solstice; the shortest amount of daylight is...

Window on the World Column | Love Is All That Matters

I’ve never got hung up on Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers … if we grew up together, then you are mine, and sometimes you are mine if we didn’t. Most of my family are bits and pieces from all over the place and I think...

Funny Papers Again Column | It ā€˜Was’ the Best of Times… It ā€˜Is’ the Worst of Times (With Apology to CD)

Steve Wilson
Let me begin this week’s column by stating I don’t anticipate the subject to bring anyone to tears but myself. It is important to me to tell this story, but it will be a bit cryptic in that I will not use any proper...

Funny Papers Again Column | It Is Not About the Writer, but the Writer’s Intent

Steve Wilson
The comment, often offered as criticism, that for writers of columns it is ā€œall about themā€ and so of little value beyond opinion, which we all have. Very true. If you regularly read Lucy’s stuff up in Soledad or every Wednesday in Gonzales you...

Letter to the Editor | Thursday Protest to Stand Against Injustice

To the Editor: If you are outraged or simply concerned about what is unfolding on our streets and in our neighborhoods, please join us this Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. to speak out. It is the ā€œGood Trouble Lives Onā€ day of nationwide protests,...

Window on the World Column | A Beautiful Tribute to a Beautiful Lady

Lucy Jensen
The first time we met she was the secretary of the organization but seemed to be pretty much in charge of everything. She was curious about which rock I had just crawled out from under and where my people were from. Her enthusiasm for...
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