Funny Papers Again Column | Phase One: KC to OKC (An American Travelogue Submission)
(This essay recounting an automobile excursion from the Midwest to the Florida archipelago in the Gulf of Mexico is offered by an amateur writer from central California. American Travelogue Magazine does not by habit publish articles other than submissions by professional travel writers, but...
Window on the World Column: Hope Is Not Canceled
Friends of mine in England had so been looking forward to their promised Christmas at the tail end of these long and tiresome months. After a long, brutal year of Covid-cancellations, they had been guaranteed a slice of merriment and celebration over Christmas. A...
Worthy to Print Column | Just My Opinion
Today as I sit down to put my thoughts to paper, I am very troubled, maybe even frightened. I speak of the current political situation in our nationās capital. I donāt suppose I need to reiterate the situations that are occurring. All you have...
Funny Papers Again Column | Soapbox Rants 1 and 2, With an Offer to End With
At the end of this month, Saturday, May 31, at 11 a.m. on the northeast corner of Broadway and North Vanderhurst, city officials will have a ribbon cutting marking the opening of the newest addition to downtown. The King City Downtown Plaza and Visitor...
Letter to the Editor | Friday Honks for Justice
To the Editor:
If you drive by the Welcome sign where Highway 101 meets King City on any Friday afternoon, you will see sign-carrying citizens asking for honks.
Honks to stop the rule of tyrants, honks for peace, honks for the children. Every week, the reason...
Funny Papers Again Column | Midsummer Musings of Street Names and Reunions
I have given myself over to the theory that the Feds have in the interest of brevity or clarity or something meddled in our affairs regarding the cityās street names. This theory is based upon both the musings of a knowledgeable citizen and a...
Window on the World Column | Honoring a Local Author
You know how it is when you are older and yet youāre still wanting to do everything? That would be me. I have the urge to consistently go and do all the time, but sometimes my body ā or, increasingly, my knee and hip...
Letter to the Editor: Changing His Tone
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Funny Papers Again Column | San Lucas School Students Shine
I was thinking about a tale for this weekās column about how a real bank robber would feel when watching a film about a make-believe gangster, with anticipation it would be an easy read as my muse seemed intent upon escape from current events,...
Window on the World Column | Busy People
Busy people stay busy. And not much alters with time, despite your best efforts to spend more time relaxing at home with a novel, or ⦠ahem ⦠working on your own novel.
As many of you know, I have been trying to work on...




















