Worthy to Print Column | Paratrooper Boots
Today is one of those days where the memories came flooding in. I got up and dressed in my usual attire ā sweater, light jacket and paratrooper boots. Thatās when I saw it, a Jump Certificate from Sky Dive Monterey. The name on the...
Window on the World Column | The Perfect Day
The perfect day was on order for the chosen celebration of life of our very own valley girl. Blissful sunlight through the oaks on River Road was on the menu, as was some delightful company. I arrived on top of some very ripe vines...
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...
Funny Papers Again Column | Fear and Loathing in America: The Grift Goes On
Because yesterday, Tuesday, March 19, was the Equinox, that happily makes this morning the first day of Spring and a long-established ritual assigned to this time of year is Spring Cleaning. In keeping with this What-Stays-What-Goes protocol, I have scrapped all my scraps. There...
Worthy to Print Column | Storage and Music Memories
This has been a good week for cleaning out the old storage bin and start throwing away things that have been sent there to molder away. Of course they donāt just go away by themselves, so the city will be having a citywide garage...
Worthy to Print Column | The Gift of Writing
Iāll tell you a little secret. Writing is hard work. Oh, I donāt mean itās like driving a tractor or picking up potatoes or any of the jobs found on a farm no matter what you are growing. Those hours are long and hot...
Funny Papers Again Column | On the Wings of Time Grief Flies Away
We all have what we nostalgically refer to as our āhometown,ā that place where we spent maybe not the most years of our lives but surely the years we recall with sharpest memory; and as decade follows decade the people and places we knew...
Guest Column | Restored Funding Needed for Rural Crime PreventionĀ
Farming is often thought of as a way of life and not just a job. Many California farm families have been living this life for generations ā and they want to continue the legacy, growing crops, raising livestock and supporting the communities and people...
Window on the World Column: Forever is a very long time
What becomes of a broken heart? In the olden days, when romantic liaisons fell apart, ladies would return home quietly to lick their wounds in private, take care of elderly relatives, or forever wear black, in mourning for the life they had wanted and...




















