Any body that has played a sport knows exactly what I’m saying in the headline. If you are labeled a team player, you get lost in the shuffle just for doing your job to the best of your …

Which came first, the apple or the apple pie? If you have the IQ of a grain of wheat you know the answer to that! So sad for you if you get this one wrong! It is the apple pie of course, and with …

I told myself not to write about her in my column. Especially after reading all of the tributes, beautifully written letters about the experiences people had with her during her time in the Kern …

Have you ever had that feeling that you were being watched? You could be by yourself walking somewhere, or in your garage, or in your backyard. You have a sense that if you turned around quickly you …

So, in my random thought process, an interesting one floated through. Yeah, I know, I can hear the jokes already. Nothing to stop it from going in one ear and out the other. “Ha Ha” very …

There are situations that occur that we call a phenomenon, and one of these is called, ‘The Birthday Effect.’ Simply put, it is when a person dies on the same date as their birthday. …

This Friday, the 18th day of April is a celebrated day that is set aside to regale the talents and inspirational skills of the ones who fill our lives with hope, sorrow, laughter, fear, caution …

Just a reminder, today is National Unicorn Day. If you have forgotten, it is a day unofficially set aside for us to celebrate one of the greatest legends in the animal kingdom. The story goes that on …

The second day in April. It is the day after April Fools Day. A day that literally can go either one of two ways for you, or it can only go one way, no doubt about it. It is either a day of remorse, …

To die hard Trekkies, ‘Live long and prosper’ is a mantra that is above all mantras everywhere. It is both the greeting and farewell used by a race of beings whose most famous member …

Has it been a year already? One year ago, I was settling back in to write the sports for the Kern Valley Sun. I had decided to retire from my job at the hardware store after 30 years. A couple of …

Today, March 19 is a very important day in America. Yes, it’s true that on this date in history many earth shattering, astoundingly awesome things happened like, in 1876, Alexander G. Bell made …

What do Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Paul Verlaine, and Herni de Toulouse- Lautrec have in common? Besides each of them standing out in their own categories of artistic genius, self …

The drones are not from Mars. Is that supposed to be comforting? For some reason, it has always seemed easier to accept if the thing that troubled us came from some place we did not understand. Even …

As you gather around your children tonight, and they ask you to either read to them or tell them a bedtime story, prepare yourself for what is about to happen. In the late 1959’s and early …

Did you get your bets down? Wagering for Punxsutawney Phil’s shadowy exhibition began on January 31, 3 days before the world’s most famous rodent, including Micky Mouse, performed his …

Valentine’s Day. A time of love and relationships, both new and old. A time of chocolates and confessions of love. Light hearted banter rules the day, and passion has taken over the night …

January was certainly an exciting month. Donald J. Trump was inaugurated and sworn in as returning in his second term as President to make him our 47th President, his first term, however, was as our …

Today we celebrate that guy who lives on the block that everyone refers to as that grumpy old man. The one who will not give back the ball or frisbee that sails over their fence and into their yard …

As far as months go, January runs a close first for most boring. There are few things that happened in the month worth noting. Except for maybe the most significant being the ending of the Viet Nam …