Twenty or so years ago those of my generation began reviewing their pensions and plotting their retirements. Anywhere from San Diego to Vermont would do, or from Denver to Mexico. All were potential retirement destination…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
There was a time, and some of us remember it, when nightly howls echoed about the neighborhoods of Ukiah, howls intended as loud shouts of support for front line workers in the pandemic of 2020.…
It’s been tough sledding for newspapers the past 30 years. Allow me to elaborate. The first two newspapers I worked on were The Plain Dealer (once the biggest newspaper in Ohio) and the Cleveland Press…
We should start asking ourselves what our limits might be regarding traveling criminals who have found Ukiah an agreeable place to squat. I’ve not been keeping score but it seems on the one hand local…
Two swallowtail butterflies are again fluttering in my backyard, bringing me cheer for about the 20th year in a row. It remains a mystery whether the same pair of butterflies, now deep into old age,…
Graffiti is mildly annoying in small doses, but no city can risk allowing it to spread. Defacing public or private property is a test, and a town that ignores it will soon be visited by…
I hadn’t been to Willits in a year or more, and when I drove through it a week ago it slowly dawned that the city looked different, and better. Way better. It’s gotten better than…
I've spent much my life around people with strong opinions about drugs and most of those opinions have been wrong if not lies. The more certain they were, the more laughable the outcomes. We've all…