Guest Column | Embracing Vitality: Essential Tips for Lifelong Health and Wellness
September is Healthy Aging Month, an ideal time to celebrate the positive aspects of aging and focus on maintaining a healthy lifestyle that allows us to thrive at every age and stage of life.
Healthy aging isnāt just about living longer; it's about fully enjoying...
Funny Papers Again Column | House Sweet House?
Somewhere along the line I am sure I mentioned that I have lived and worked in different locales spread across the country and as such there are memorable episodes, one of which came to mind recently so I thought I would share it. I...
Worthy to Print Column | Goinā to the Dogs
āHoney, did you forget to write your column?ā She uses the tone of voice that brings me back to earth from my revere. I had been sitting here staring at the blinking reminder that I wasnāt doing what I knew I had to do....
Funny Papers Again Column | On the Road Again; Just Canāt Wait
I will remember this month, this May of 2024, as one of journalistic chaos and donāt you wanna know why? Let me tell you why; and in the telling offer up a plea of āguilty with prejudiceā to the charge of Unwarranted Opinion.
If one...
Letter to the Editor | Join the Resistance Locally
To the Editor:
Donald Trump was elected U.S. president by the narrowest margin in history, which he claims is a mandate.
His foreign relations policies are making enemies of former friends. His economic policies are devastating the economy. Likewise, his deportation policies are upending the agriculture,...
Funny Papers Again Column | Summer Solstice and the Last Word on Local Fun in the Sun
This is my last Funny Papers Again column for the Valley newspapers, so if you have been a fan over the past couple of years then, well, just read slowly, I guess. More on this at the end of this column.
Last Wednesday was the...
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...
Funny Papers Again Column | Diagonals and Rounds and Painted Walls
As reported in last weekās edition of the Rustler, the City of King has altered the direction of parking on a section of Broadway as a means of providing a safer downtown environment. All the ins and outs of this trial run can be...
Worthy to Print Column | A Dog Like No Other
Honey, can you come here? I rolled over and took a look at the clock on my nightstand. āYeah,ā I replied, not knowing if the house was on fire or what. Lorraine almost never calls me after I have gone to bed.
We discovered many...
Worthy to Print Column | Tired of Getting Older
I just got back from my monthly trip to Home Depot. I canāt go more often because I buy things that require me to stop and put up a picture or change an electric outlet, and sometimes I just donāt feel like taking the...



















