Worthy to Print Column | They Can Do It to You!
I might have scared off a few readers with that title, but I think it is important for you to believe and understand what I am going to write. When I got out of the Army in 1974, I got a job as a...
Window on the World Column: The waiting
The waiting is the worst. I donāt think there is anyone who would challenge me on that. I get flashbacks to my own cancer diagnosis from 10 years ago. One test slowly crawled to another and you are in the waiting room of your...
Worthy to Print Column | A Day in the Life of a Soldier ā 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...
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 | Celebrity Sightings in South County
One of the favorite questions posted on social media is āWho 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 thatās...
Letters to the Editor | Published Sept. 19, 2018
Letters to the Editor | Published Sept. 19, 2018
Worthy to Print Column | The Bonds of Brotherhood
I woke up the other day to my phone making sounds that announce a new text had come in since I last checked. I usually turn my phone off at night. I have never got a good result if it is a nighttime call,...
Funny Papers Again Column | What Would JR Sing to Leaders Today?
Back in 1980, I spent a couple hours with an American icon, a man whose music struck chords across a wide swath of the nation and at times insinuated itself into the political discussion. He came from a small, rural part of Arkansas, born...
Window on the World Column | Go Dolphins!
If you happen to be at the Soledad Pool (or, more correctly the Soledad-Mission Recreation District) at about 6 a.m., you will see Coach Tessa and her student athletes. Mostly I catch sight of them when I am racing in for water aerobics at...
Window on the World Column | Regret for the Things That You Do Not Do
We should go, shouldnāt we? Shouldnāt we go? Life happens when you are busy making other plans. And isnāt that always the way. My mother-in-law, who had been suffering with Parkinsonās and dementia at my sister-in-lawās house in Oregon, had taken a bad fall...


















