Funny Papers Again Column | How I Later Became a Sooner
If I ever again contemplate air travel, it will only be because I have lost all sensibilities and am probably living in a room with rubber walls. The last time I flew in a jet airliner I vowed it would be just that, the...
Worthy to Print Column: Shocking Facts
What do you know about electricity? Surely you know not to hold both the common and ground wires while dealing with gremlins in your house or office. I found out that electricity, even if you canāt see it, can really give you a ride...
Funny Papers Again Column | It Was Convivial on the Alluvial
Some years back there was a fellow in Greenfield who owned an airplane, and as I had no qualms about flying in a small craft, there were many occasions to see the Valley and surrounding areas from aloft. Because I spent the first 19...
Worthy to Print Column | Choosing the Right Candidates
Another week in our beautiful town and another week closer to the election that will determine who is to lead our fair city for the next few years. I am a follower of all things political that is happening in our nationās capitol. In...
Funny Papers Again Column | To the Classes of 2022: Dear Graduatesā¦
Greetings and congratulations to those of you who have completed the prescribed course of academia and have now, or soon will be, granted a diploma from your respective Salinas Valley schools. As has been pointed out to you all, your graduation is an important...
Window on the World Column | Her Fourth Anniversary
Even as I am feeling sad inside my head, louder I hear her voice ⦠āOh for crying out loud, sisterā or words to that effect. āItās been blooming four years! Time to let me go and think about more interesting things.ā I wish...
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 | Tasting the Stars
Happy New Year! Whatās that? You have a little bit of a headache? You had a second glass of what the bartender told you were like tasting the stars? The phrase, āLike tasting the stars,ā is credited to Dom Perignon (1638-1715). He has also...
Guest Column | Beautification Week 2025: Celebrating King Cityās Ongoing Transformation and Community Pride
If someone had told me in 1977 that King City would look like it does today, I would have found that unbelievable. But indeed in 48 years I have witnessed in King City an amazing transformation, and I have to say that I am...
Window on the World Column | The Year of Our Content
When I worked in the newspaper industry, the obituary page was allegedly the paperās most popular page, which, in my younger years, I found a little curious. Now I am ā ahem ā a little less young, I totally get it. These days I...


















