Guest Column | Delivering Healthcare With Heart
Believing nursing to be her divine purpose, a young British woman set out to reform healthcare in the 1800s ā influencing the quality of care we take for granted in modern times.
Florence Nightingale changed nursing forever during the Crimean War in 1854, leading a...
Worthy to Print Column | And So It Continuesā¦
I want to take a moment of your time to tell you how much I have enjoyed writing of my life and my thoughts. I guess there are many reasons a person would do this. I was not sure if anyone would care about...
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...
Worthy to Print Column: Hot Enough for You?
Today is a day when my dad would greet everyone he met with the most common phrase in the farmers lexicon. āHot enough for you?ā Actually, he didnāt say that very often. When you wake up over in the San Joaquin Valley, summer is...
Funny Papers Again Column | Can We Consider a Conscientious Crossing Consensus?
As I venture out mornings for a bike ride āround some favored routes, it is apparent that the young denizens of the village are headed to their respective campuses as schools are now up and running full tilt boogie. It goes without saying that...
Funny Papers Again Column | āYounger, Richer, Stronger, Better Looking,ā and ASST. Interns
Weāll get to the title of this weekās column, kinda, but first I offer up mention of a television program both to conjure a memory in the likeminded and to inform a younger readership; if one exists.
When I was a kid laying on a...
Guest Column | Goodwill Central Coast Celebrates the Power of Employment
Each year during the first full week of May, Goodwill organizations across the U.S. and Canada celebrate Goodwill Industries Week to highlight a crucial mission ā transforming lives and communities through the power of education and employment.
For more than 60 years, Goodwill Central Coast...
Worthy to Print Column | My Inspirations
Some of you must be wondering how I got such a high-paying job with such little experience. Well, since I have been doing this for a few years, I thought I would fill you in. It has been a long time since I begged...
Worthy to Print Column | Still Learning
I love living in the Salinas Valley. I have always loved this part of the state. Oh sure there is the wind, but that you have to have something to dust while cleaning house. I will say that you really never, as our early...


















