Funny Papers Again Column | The Long and Short of It
You know what I donāt like, let me tell ya what I donāt like. I donāt like all these little shortcuts that have infested the Kingās English in past few years. I have had to be aware of how to use words as I...
Funny Papers Again Column | The Easy and Hard Way Ideas Come To Mind
āTelevision commercials are an assault upon the senses and an insult to intelligence.ā
The sentence appears quoted and italicized because I think it is a pretty good opening sentence. Opening sentences are important, as those first words of an author must grasp the readerās attention...
Guest Column | Monterey County Free Librariesā 5 Things to Celebrate in November
November is a busy month! We change the clocks for Daylight Savings and begin to feel the transition from fall to winter. We also have many things to highlight and recognize.
1) In November we celebrate Native American Heritage Month and each week we will...
Worthy to Print Column | Deadlines and Dinners
Did you find something different in your mailbox this past weekend? By different I mean something that wasnāt there. By something that wasnāt there, I mean my weekly scribbling. I have to tell you that it was all my fault.
You see, like all newspapers,...
Guest Column | Give South Countyās Flu-Fighting Efforts a Shot … In the Arm
Considered the father of modern medicine, ancient Greek physician Hippocrates (known for his āfirst do no harmā ethical code called the Hippocratic Oath) still influences our practices more than 25 centuries after his time.
The first to regard disease as a natural, not supernatural, phenomenon,...
Window on the World Column | Traveling Post-Covid
I cannot deny that the last several months have been a bit special for the small traveling public of which I was a member. Empty airports, reminiscent of the Tom Hanks movie, four seats per person in coach class and check-in desks where you...
Funny Papers Again Column | The Gradual Waning of American Shock
Saturday afternoon around 4:30 I was 410 words into my column for this week when my cell phone rang. The choice to interrupt a train of thought while writing usually falls to the ālet it ring and go to voicemailā protocol, but in this...
Funny Papers Again Column | What Is the Problem With No Problem?
I have always been a reader. Back in the Paper Age people had a set of books in their homes which was known as an encyclopedia; comprised of two Greek words meaning ācomplete education.ā They were a very comprehensive resource used by millions for...
Window on the World Column | The Next Book
There are many things that drive me crazy about this country; but the lack of opportunity is not one of them. I have always known that I can do whatever I want to do here, when I set my mind to it.
Years ago, I...





















