Worthy to Print Column | Never Give Up
How about that Super Bowl! Did you get to watch it? I can’t remember the last one that I have watched, but this one was really a good show. Lorraine and I enjoyed ourselves just hoping the best team would win. You know what? The...
Letter to the Editor: Thanks for Helping With King City Park Project
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Worthy to Print Column | A Day in the Life of a Soldier — Part II
Last week I wrote a little to explain why Special Forces are such revered soldiers. It is because they have studied small unit warfare for at least three months back at Fort Bragg, the home of Special Forces. This is where they earn the...
Worthy to Print Column | Sobering Statistics and a Shoutout
I don’t have to ask if it is over. I looked outside this morning and couldn’t see any signs asking you to vote for someone. The candidates have been very thoughtful about taking down the signs. It’s kind of funny because I can remember...
Funny Papers Again Column | A Skater, A Dancer and in Loco Parentis
Way back in the mid-60s when just a lad in Greenfield, I owned a “skurfboard”; you read that correctly, a skurfboard. This was one of, if not the, earliest skateboards sold to an unaware public. The name an obvious combination of “skate” and “surf,”...
Funny Papers Again Column | The Easy and Hard Way Ideas Come To Mind
“Television commercials are an assault upon the senses and an insult to intelligence.”
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 reader’s attention...
Funny Papers Again Column | ‘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 “The Nutcracker Ballet” on the Robert Stanton Theater. That will be a treat for me as I have never...
Window on the World Column | Never Too Old
I first tried yoga about a month ago. I am not necessarily proud of that fact. Over the years, so many friends and family have counseled me to try it, give it a go, open up my mind to the possibilities. Even my mother...
