The news we’ve all been waiting for has arrived: The causes and cures of homelessness are no longer a mystery, and in fact are simple. Those in charge need more money to fund innovative program…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
Mendocino County employees have authorized a strike, and if you are weeping and worrying at their plight, or if you’ve been making sandwiches for unemployed government workers, I have some advice: Dry your eyes. Toss…
One of the biggest mistakes Ukiah makes, and has been making for decades, is allowing graffiti to deface streets and buildings. It’s as if our leaders appreciate graffiti, admire the stuff, encourage young vandals to…
Immigrants have been coming to California for centuries, enduring journeys of thousands of miles by walking months or years through dangers and deprivations you and I can scarcely comprehend. “Americans” were living in a land…
The art of conversation, or at least practice, is as dead and gone as your grandmother’s DeSoto sedan. This didn’t happen last week nor last decade but it makes no difference. We no longer sit…
Live! Laugh! Love! has been the constellation navigation Big Dipper guide to my carefree journey through life. Nothing but severe diarrhea touches me so deeply as the simple, affirming message of “Live! Laugh! Love!” Together…
If you think you have the best dog in the world you probably do. Here’s the deal: Everyone’s dog, including yours, is the best dog in the whole wide world. People love their cocker spaniels…
Consider “Over the Rainbow.” Light, fragile, wistful, brimming with yearning and hope, young Dorothy sings about what she knows: Birds, trees, lemon drops and rainbows. Listeners know the same from our own fragmented memories. Judy…