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May 9, 2025

Worthy to Print Column | Finding the Perfect Gift

I want to tell you ā€œMerry Christmasā€ and send out the love of my family and our wishes that you and your family enjoy the wonderful holiday, where we all give thanks for the Sacrificed Son that proves that God has forgiveness in his...

Funny Papers Again Column | Note to Founding Fathers: ā€˜You Didn’t See This Coming, Did You?’

It’s 3:17 a.m. early Wednesday morning, nine hours before deadline for this column and I haven’t 1,000 cohesive words anywhere in my head: not a scintilla of theme. This is not often the case when offering this column on a weekly basis (or is...

Worthy to Print Column | A Day in My Life

Now, where was I… Dick pulled up to me on the highway and told me to put it second gear and ā€œGet on it!ā€ So I slipped it up a gear and took off. I didn’t go very far because I saw a state...

Window on the World Column | Find Your Passion

ā€œWhy do you like it so much?ā€ he asked. You could ask a lot of people that same question and they wouldn’t be stumped the way I was. I thought back to the beginning of the passion, the birth of my new hobby. My...

Funny Papers Again Column | Missouri and Florida: Never the Twain Shall Meet?

I have always enjoyed words and how they are used, but as I have not kept up on the grammatical, I frankly admit to longer being able to accurately describe, or recognize in use, the dangling participle or the gerund, nor would I be...

Worthy to Print Column | The Good Ones Always Leave Early

In 1940, American author Ernest Hemingway wrote a book named ā€œFor Whom the Bell Tolls.ā€ It wasn’t his best book, but it had a few passages that reminded me this past week that he certainly had a way with words. The title of the...

Funny Papers Again Column | ā€˜The Nutcracker Ballet’: What Have I Been Missing?

Very soon, in fact just two days from today, the Monterey County Dance Foundation will present the Monterey County Dance Theatre’s 62nd anniversary production of ā€œThe Nutcracker Balletā€ on the Robert Stanton Theater. That will be a treat for me as I have never...

Worthy to Print Column | Put On Your Mask

I’m beginning to think like my personal nurse. Her opinion is that we will be wearing masks for the rest of time. I would have to agree with her. I have been around for a lot of years and watched my government closely as...

Window on the World Column | The Chaos That Can Be Christmas

I recall so clearly the simplicity of the holidays when we were young. We would show up and be fed and presented with presents, as it were. (Occasionally I would help Mum with the wrapping, but that was about the extent of my responsibilities.)...

Funny Papers Again Column | Celebrity Sightings in South County

One of the favorite questions posted on social media is ā€œWho is the most famous person you have ever met?ā€; or some derivative thereof. Well, I have met many in my life, probably more than my share compared to the average life, but that’s...
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