Window on the World Column | NashVegas
Ever since my sister passed, my daughter and I have been wont to follow her lead and give each other experiences instead of merchandise for special occasions. I was so delighted when the kid gave me concert tickets for Christmas. I love concerts, I...
Window on the World Column | The Full Moon
When you start the week at the early morning water aerobics class at the Soledad pool, you go out the gate like a champ, rising to greatness like the very light itself coming up. There is nearly nothing as life enhancing as watching the...
Guest Column | Protecting the Most Precious Gift We Hold in Life ā Our Health
In 1948, the World Health Organization defined health as āa 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 āa resource for everyday life, not the objective...
Funny Papers Again Column | The Legacy of Writers
With the advent of 24-hour news coverage by numerous networks, we now have a multitude of current events coverage; coverage that invariably comes with opinion-fueled rhetoric offered up by everyone from professional pundits to amateur analysists and simpering sycophants to determined detractors. And with...
Funny Papers Again Column | One Attraction Not Seen at the Fair: The Horse Chase
Well, folks, I finally, after two aborted attempts in past years, made it to Dealy Plaza to visit the place where President Kennedy was murdered way back in November of 1963. Named for George Bannerman Dealy (1859-1946), a newspaper man who rose to civic...
Funny Papers Again Column | The Wild Winds Usher in Pyotr Ilych and Walter Ted
It was almost exactly one oāclock in the afternoon on the first day of April when the window blinds in the studio began to move and that was the first indication that the Valley winds have once again arrived for their annual blow. It...
Window on the World Column | Late for It All
I donāt know what happened. We skipped through Halloween, enjoyed a nice, peaceful Thanksgiving and then all heck broke loose. I took an early Christmas delivery to my dad and sister overseas ā and how organized was I! Even had the holiday gift bags...
Worthy to Print Column | Moving Along
Have you ever had a situation that required you to step way out of your comfort zone? Perhaps meeting someone that is important to your future for the first time? Or maybe you are looking for a new job that might be a little...
Funny Papers Again Column | Todayās Opinion Column Offers Some Opinions About Opinions and the Opinionated
āOpinion 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 anotherās world.ā
I donāt recall whose words those are, if I...
Worthy to Print Column | It Could Happen to You
You know there are times in your life when bad things happen to you through the years that never leave you. Things that seem to never go away are forgotten when one finds love from his neighbors and family. I have to be honest....

















