Window on the World Column | Rosieās Birthday
Iām not great with anniversaries, birthdays and the like. When I say Iām not great, what that means is that I have an incredible memory for what can be difficult days in the annual calendar. Days like my sisterās birthday. āForever 48,ā I wrote...
Window on the World Column | The Gammy Leg
āYouāre limping again,ā he said (again). āYES! FULLY AWARE AGAIN OF THE FACT IāM LIMPING. DONāT MENTION IT ALL THE TIME!ā (I donāt think he will for a while.)
Iāve had a gammy leg, as father would say, for over six months now. When you...
Worthy to Print Column | Celebrating Mom
What a great weekend for Motherās Day. I hope you got to see and tell your mother how happy you are that she is your mother and what she means to you. I got to see whatās left of the family that lives around...
Worthy to Print Column | 3 Days to Remember
I woke up this morning wondering who was going to get up and turn on the furnace. I had a secret card with me as I had put our dog Ranger on my side of the bed before we went to sleep. So all...
Guest Column | King Cityās Efforts to Address Youth Violence
A major priority of the City of King is to end youth violence. In 2016, a community task force developed the Cityās Comprehensive Plan to End Youth violence. The plan was implemented in 2017 and shootings decreased from 64 during the period of 2015...
Funny Papers Again Column | An End to May Columns ā in 6-Part Disharmony
It is a little after 4 a.m. Monday morning and I donāt have a column written for the noon deadline. In fact, I have only the words you are now reading on paper and no more in my head to follow with. So, I...
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: 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...
Window on the World Column | The Sparkly Glasses
On the occasion of my sisterās 50th birthday ā were she still alive ā I was up in San Francisco with my friend. I really struggled with the fact that sister should be celebrating her big milestone birthday with the world who loved her,...
Window on the World Column | The Dog Noodles and Other Sad Stories
Something just crept up inside my tiny brain and said, āOh, you have vacation coming up next month with a lot of moving parts. Maybe you should check on some of those pieces?ā I do listen these days when the female intuition kicks in,...



















