Funny Papers Again Column | Some Old and New on a Sweep Through South County
I ventured up to Greenfield the other day with the intent of doing a quick scan of Oak Avenue and El Camino Real where sits, on the northwest corner, the old Ioppini Building, or the Beyer Building, or The Economy Market ā old-timers take...
Window on the World Column | The Dump Trailer
You know you are middle-aged, or frankly on the wrong side of the bridge, if you get excited about a dump trailer. Itās a long story; but weāll just call him Scotty. Right at the beginning of our home remodel of sorts, we looked...
Worthy to Print Column | The Sun Just Behind a Cloud
Things have sure been happening fast, havenāt they? No trouble finding all sorts of things to write about. My blushing bride asked me to write only good pleasant things or humorous things and I tried. Honest! Itās difficult to write happy things when our...
Window on the World Column | The Newborn
āWhy donāt we just adopt older dogs from now on. Letās make the end of their lives the best ever!ā We were all set. No more puppies, no toddlers with four legs. Our pack of near golden oldies (truthfully, more black-and-white than golden) ā...
Window on the World Column | Find Your Passion
No matter how much you love your work, I have discovered that it is an even more wonderful thing to lead a fulfilling life if you also have passions that you adore, which are disconnected from your employment. Your work life should feed your...
Funny Papers Again Column | Will Americaās Past Dictate Americaās Future?
We have just celebrated this countryās 246th birthday, a new country born with the words āWe the people of the United States of America ā¦ā; this was the first time the name appeared to the world. This new country was democratically governed, economically capitalistic...
Funny Papers Again Column | KCHS Swag and Cringe: Kudos and Calamity
What? You donāt know the present use of the words āswagā and ācringeā? Well, I didnāt either until I read it in context in an article in the newest issue of The Mustang Legacy, the King City High School student publication. At the present...
Window on the World Column | The Adventures Continue
āIām a traveler,ā I brag, as people wow at my ability to whoosh through time zones without a care or jet-laggy attitude in the world. Well, mostly. I remember a pilot friend of mine telling me that anytime you land where you intended to...
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...

















