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Say what, and to whom, and why? Such are the questions being asked these days by those who want to say something. And those questioning…
The first rich man to say yes to Ramparts was Irving Laucks, a vivacious 81-year-old who had a nine-year-old son, a millionaire to the tenth…
The excitement of Christmas in our post-war family of six was more than a little girl could stand. There were no extravagant gifts. My plasterer…
Ed Denson was still a relative newcomer to southern Humboldt when he arrived in the 1980s. He had spent most of his adult life in…
The goal of baroque composers was to trigger the emotions. Yet many moderns enjoy this music because they hear it is unthreatening. To them, the…
My wife was kinda short and pudgy, with an egg-shaped face. She was cute as could be, gorgeous to me, but an uncommon combination of…
It is an amazing, humbling thing to be alive in our time and in our place. It is almost beyond comprehension. It borders on magical.…
Now that the brief visit of the Dynamo football team has come to an end, it is possible to say publicly what many thinking people…