Window on the World Column | Loving Our Vandura
When you are crawling toward 24 years of marriage and over 26 together, the fireworks are not always going off, unless the neighbor decides that the Fourth of July cannot come soon enough. You are mostly like two comfortable-ish chairs, grumbling about the thing...
Worthy to Print Column | Another Year Older
Well, I made it another year. Last Sunday was my birthday. Yeah, I made it another year. I am not a fan of celebrations about birthdays, at least at my age, but truly I love the day for the way folks say nice things...
Letter to the Editor | Thursday Protest to Stand Against Injustice
To the Editor:
If you are outraged or simply concerned about what is unfolding on our streets and in our neighborhoods, please join us this Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. to speak out. It is the āGood Trouble Lives Onā day of nationwide protests,...
Worthy to Print Column | Happy to Be Alive
Well I believe that I have seen the gates of hell. I even feel that I was on my way through those rusty jagged portals when I turned around and saw my wonderful wife who shooed away all the bad parts of my life...
Worthy to Print Column | I Am What I Am and Thatās All That I Am
I suppose that today I should write something about how messed up our government is, but I think that would be too easy. There is no use in restating my thoughts about how miserable it is being run right now. If you read anything...
Window on the World Column | Mapping It on From Billings West
Mapping it on from Billings was a bit of a wrench for our boy Aaron, since you can never see everyone you want to when you go home; though he did manage to connect with two grandmas, a grandpa and an uncle in the...
Window on the World Column | The Wonderful World of Books
I wish more people read books. Iāve said that many times in my life since the Internet has become near everything in peopleās lives and books were placed on the back shelf, as it were, where they have become very dusty. Occasionally Iāll get...
Worthy to Print Column | Nothing in Life Comes Easy
I usually awake on a Monday morning and see what is going on in my life. This morning I got bad news on my phone. One of my best friendsā mom died last night. She chose, if thatās possible, to die on the anniversary...
Window on the World Column: Waving across the valley
I cannot remember the first time I met her and her lovely husband. It seems to me that we were friends from the minute I arrived in the valley about 19 years now, so it was a good while ago; and likely at a...




















