Worthy to Print Column | Make the Most of Your Regrets
Regrets? Iāve had a few. Old blue eyes, Frank Sinatra, sure knew how to say it better than me, but then he got to live his life āMy Way.ā I have done a lot of things in my life. I got to thinking about...
Guest Column | How Farmworkers Outlawed āEl Cortitoā 50 Years Ago
For decades in the Salinas Valley, the short-handle hoe, known as āEl Cortito,ā was used for weeding and thinning rows of crops that kept farmworkers stooped over for long hours each day. Workers were only able to stand and stretch when they reached the...
Worthy to Print Column | A Real Hero
Iām not a movie critic. I donāt even play one on TV. In fact, I only go to the movies once in a while. Iām paying a fortune to see all sorts of movies on TV, that I donāt even watch very often. In...
Funny Papers Again Column | āBuddy, Can You Spare Some Time?ā
There is an ancient writing wherein one of the main players, thee Main Player for many, upon His exit from this earthly realm exhorted his followers to āoccupy ātil I come.ā So for the past 55 years I have occupied myself in more fields...
Window on the World Column | The Top Generation
I remember my grandparents very clearly. They were our safe harbor when things in the house were a little stormy. My grandma was quiet and sweet, mostly seen with knitting needles in her hands and a soft smile. She made the best chocolate cakes...
Providence and toilet āpreppersā
Forget the panic. Everywhere you look, including this very newspaper, you see the fallout from coronavirus. There is a difference betweenĀ logical response and panicked reaction. On one hand, you could be provident and prepared for any potential emergency, including an earthquake or fire, and...
Funny Papers Again Column | And a Good Time Was Had by All
Last Sunday one of the readers of this column listened, patiently I suspect, to my not uncommon lament of having a deadline in the near future and not a single word written, whereupon he responded that I say that every week and every week...
Letters to the Editor for Week of May 17
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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...




















