Window on the World Column | Mermaids at the Local Pool
It was well over a year ago that I found myself completely disgusted with myself. After a period of holiday debauchery, I could not believe the paunch in front of me. It was mine; all mine. Fortunately, my bathroom mirror only showed as far...
Window on the World Column | Delighted by the Youth
The South County Expo used to be a heck of an event here in town; but like all events, it takes people to host year after year and the people get tired. A couple of years ago, the Soledad Merchants Association elected to revitalize...
Funny Papers Again Column | Fear and Loathing in America: The Grift Goes On
Because yesterday, Tuesday, March 19, was the Equinox, that happily makes this morning the first day of Spring and a long-established ritual assigned to this time of year is Spring Cleaning. In keeping with this What-Stays-What-Goes protocol, I have scrapped all my scraps. There...
Window on the World Column | TAILS in Soledad — Part III
There is no doubt, when you look around the room of trainers and trainees that this is a perfectly symbiotic relationship of the incarcerated in society, with little hope and aspiration in life, training the unwanted pups, which were rescued from death row. On...
Letter to the Editor | Advocating Love Over Fear
To the Editor:
Thank you Rustler columnist Steve Wilson for using your platform to examine the pressing issues facing us in real time. Your words of March 27, in the middle of what Christians across the world celebrate as Holy Week, remind us that all...
Letter to the Editor: Helping Seniors for 25 Years
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Window on the World Column | A Year With Foster Cats
As I may have mentioned before, social media is really good for animal stuff — not so great with some of the other. Just over a year ago, I see a posting that has been shared and shared. This family is in the Bay...
Worthy to Print Column | Friends and Mom’s Wisdom
One time a long time ago I asked my mom for a quarter. She said she was sorry, but she didn’t have any money that day. I can’t remember why I needed a quarter, but I bet it was for candy. I always wanted...
Funny Papers Again Column | 14 Days of the Sights and Sounds of Christmas
As Planet Earth nears the end of another orbit around the sun, many in the United States observe Christmas Day. It’s celebrated as a religious day, this 25th day of the last month of the year, just two weeks away.
This column about Christmas came...
Window on the World Column | Summer Travel Woes 2022
I am a British Citizen, born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in 1963. I have lived in the USA since 1988 and have been a dual national and dual passport holder since 2003 without incident. I have always felt safer traveling the world with two passports,...
