Tag: Opinion
Funny Papers Again Column | You Meet the Darndest People in...
By my reckoning 140 years, give or take, of my family’s timeline was spent in prisons; the years accumulated by my parents, a brother...
Worthy to Print Column | Keep On Trucking
I’m sure that I have written often about my trusty old Ford pickup. It is an F-100 that I bought about a month after...
Funny Papers Again Column | Step Forward, Gentlemen, and Step Lively
I have set aside my regular column this week, a little story about me and my dog in Arroyo Seco, nicely told in my...
Letter to the Editor | No Happy Ending for Bridge Plaque
To the Editor:
Once upon a time there was a farmer named John. He noticed the narrow bridge that connected Soledad to the Mission District...
Worthy to Print Column | Secrets and Confession
I’m going to tell you a secret. Oh, it’s nothing nefarious or secretive. It’s just something I decided to do a few years ago...
Window on the World Column | No Doubting the Universe
“No doubt the universe will unfold as it should,” I tell my husband (sort of citing my favorite poem “Desiderata”). This was after we...
Funny Papers Again Column | Donate Yourself and Be a Volunteer
The definition of the word “volunteer,” according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, is a person who does a job without being paid for...
Worthy to Print Column | New Kind of Warfare
What if they started a war and nobody showed up? These words went to a paper I wrote about 40 years ago while stationed...
Window on the World Column | Make a Difference, However Small
People are digging out maps and figuring out where this place is — Ukraine. Who are these people? They live so far away from...
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...
Local News
Monterey County Government Center to reopen Tuesday
MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Government Center at 168 W. Alisal St. in downtown Salinas will reopen for normal business operations Tuesday, Sept. 22,...
