Some people save each month for Christmas. Some set aside only their loose change, or some just decide that they will take their chances and by the time Black Friday rolls around they start their …

WWI had just ended. The Allied Forces were victorious over the Central Powers of Evil and the world could rest easy. That’s how the old history books tell it. Soft, subtle, and peaceful. One year …

Over 35 million American men see that there are many advantages to baldness.  One, and not necessarily the most important is maintenance. A bald man can really only use a haircut once a month. …

It’s Bathtub Day across America! October may have Halloween on it’s last day, but on the 7 th day, we celebrate the Bathtub. Bathtubs have been around since well before the Crete’s used them in …

From 1946 thru 1964 the children of the Baby Boomer Generation were growing up. We had just come out of WWII, the Korean War was fought for three years during that generation and an eleven year fight …

In 1687, when he was 23 years old, Issac Newton published his laws of motion and other scientific stuff. The 3 rd of these laws is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. To …

Have you ever come across a word that you knew just had to be fake? Made up. Not in any vocabulary on the planet? Then you find out, it is a word. A real word that is actually used quit often, just …

The 25 th year after the world changed. 25 years since 19 men murdered 2,977 people in 4 different terrorist attacks on the same day in the United States of America. 25 years since an unrestrained, …

It’s official, the time is now to jump on the Kern River Valley sports bandwagon. There are exciting times ahead for the sports in the Kern River Valley. The games, the matches, the meets are …

Vince is personable, likable, charismatic, smart, and he makes you feel at ease and heard.  You walk away from a meeting with him feeling like he is a friend and will protect your  …

As we get older things change. That wouldn’t be so bad in itself, but as certain things change it appears that their location on our bodies also changes. Just like us, as we age, and the cold …

 ‘It’s raining like cats and dogs!’ What does that even mean? I know we have all either said it ourselves or we have heard someone else say it to us.  But like a lot of other phrases …

            Two ships set sail from the same port 292 years apart from one another. They traveled two different routes, carried a largely …

You have 10 days to come up with, remember, create, plagiarize, or outright steal a joke. August 16 is a day that comes alive with one liners, long, drawn out jokes, short jokes, puns, limericks and …

            Everyday there is a new word that comes out. Not always from a Webster like publication either. It seems that nowadays anyone can …

            Napeta Cataria. It sounds like it could be a number of things. It could be a disease that if you had it, you’d probably wish you …

On the Fourth of July, I spent part of the afternoon photographing people enjoying the Kern River at Riverside Park. I wasn’t looking for dramatic pictures. What I found was something better. …

            July of 1971. Gary, Indiana. It was the best month of the year. The 4 th of July meant the annual picnic at grandma’s house with a …

            250 years ago a group of 56 men met to discuss the terms of Great Britian’s surrender in the American Revolutionary War. The terms …

            Did you miss it? You better not have. Last Sunday was Father’s Day. Not as big a deal as Mother’s day, or even as anticipated as …