My parents, along with my third grade teacher, Miss Wright, highly encouraged me to read as many books as I could during my “leisure time” (when I was not engaged in those other extracurricular activities…
Posts published in November 2012
Thanksgiving Day is a time of feasting and visiting between families and friends who join in the offering of thanks for all those blessings bestowed since the last Thanksgiving. Many were in far-off lands and…
AS OF TUESDAY MORNING, the Boonville newspaper of last week had still not reached San Francisco. The week before, it got to New Jersey before it got to Frisco. The various layers of the Post…
ARE YOUR HATCHES BATTENED? Storms beginning now will drench us so thoroughly for the next five or six days we're assuming 128 will be closed at Navarro by week's end. Even the cops are warning…
Local boy Jacob Gowan is Stanford’s long-snapper on this year’s outstanding Cardinal football team. He is also a coach’s dream because he is a fine Division I athlete playing varsity football while attending Stanford on…
Toward the end of the day of their November 13th meeting, the Board endured two hours of mind-numbing opinion from actuaries and consultants and staff about adding a new retirement tier for new hires. Fresh…
While visiting Willits for Thanksgiving, on Black Friday I dropped into its elegant feed store/pet store/tack shop/ranchwear and coffee shop, J.D. Redhouse & Co., in the middle of town on the highway. I was looking…