Worthy to Print | Home stretch
In just a few weeks, Iāll have to come up with a new excuse to keep from doing any chores around the house. I know you have heard this before, but this is my last semester (I hope) at school. The way it is...
Window on the World Column | Find Your Passion
āWhy do you like it so much?ā he asked. You could ask a lot of people that same question and they wouldnāt be stumped the way I was. I thought back to the beginning of the passion, the birth of my new hobby. My...
Window on the World Column: The navigation of grief
It has been two years since my baby sister Rosie passed on to another planet. When some say that spirits fly close to the ground, I have found that to be true, also that they donāt fly in the conventional sense. Sister seems to...
Guest Column | Mee Memorial Observes Breast Cancer Awareness Month With Key Message to South County Women
In observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, Mee Memorial Healthcare System is educating South Monterey County residents about the disease and the potentially life-saving screening available locally.
Breast cancer can take years to develop, yet women rarely have symptoms in the early stages....
Funny Papers Again Column | āOpen, Sesame!ā Sez Me
I have before me a smattering of paper scraps with an odd accumulation of notes, which will, one hopes, render up a readable column. Also in front of me is the remnants of a very delicious barbecued chicken dinner offered up by King City...
Worthy to Print Column | Wonāt You Be My Neighbor?
Hello, Neighbors. A couple of things have happened the past couple of weeks that boggles the mind or at least in my mind anyway. Powerful things that snuck up on me and filled me with hope that our little town as well as our...
Worthy to Print Column | Itās Not Fair
Boy oh boy! How many times did I say that as a youth? I was third of four boys. It seemed that my Dad always favored the older two boys in almost every area as a youth. My oldest brother would get a new...
Funny Papers Again Column | To Vote, or Not to Vote ⦠That Is the Real Question
A recent article in the latest Rustler and Tribune editions informs of upcoming voting changes in the city of Greenfield (āDistrictwide Elections on the Horizon,ā March 24) and I thought I would take a few inches of newsprint to offer some opinions on the...
Window on the World Column | Traveling Post-Covid
I cannot deny that the last several months have been a bit special for the small traveling public of which I was a member. Empty airports, reminiscent of the Tom Hanks movie, four seats per person in coach class and check-in desks where you...



















