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 …

There are still a few things around that can be said are 100% real American. The idea of freedom at any cost, integrity to the flag, and respect for the men and women who fought for the United …

Can you believe it, we are in the year 2025? Who would have ‘thunk’ it? Certainly not me. So, I am 64 years old, yeah, a dinosaur to some. The sports world has changed in so many ways. Instead of …

We are into the second week of the new year; 8 days of 2025 are almost history. This year is flying by already, there is only 98% of the year remaining, and to borrow from the Beatles, the magical …

Whether you follow politics, the Hollywood movie schedule, or college football, ‘they’ say that 2025 is going to be a record setting year for all of these. January 1, New Year’s Day 2025. What …

It was five days before the baby was going to be born. The parents didn’t know that exactly, but they had a feeling it was soon. What were they going to do? They had started on this journey some …

It began in 1957 when Dr. Theodore Geisel wrote and illustrated a 33-line poem called, ‘Hoobob and the Grinch’ We know the doctor as Dr. Suess and his book is of course, ‘How the Grinch Stole …

The twelve days of Christmas? What are they and when do they start? Do they begin with December 13? Twelve days before Christmas? This year, Friday the 13th will be twelve days before Jesus is born. …

It’s been a few weeks since I put my thoughts, also know as my opinion, down on paper. With each sports season that comes my way, I feel like cynicism has become a part of my life. I always hope …

It’s crunch time at the North Pole. Only four weeks until Christmas, that means the elves have roughly 672 hours to have all of the toys ready for the GRB, Gigantic Red Bag on the back of Santa’s …

As we get on in years, we find that we don’t need as much as we used to. It’s sort of like a huge holiday dinner. Every Thanksgiving my family would prepare a feast for a king. We had the usual …