Oh, my, how times have changed. But whether they’ve changed for the better is questionable. There isn’t much else in […]

Call a person a turkey, and you might be using fighting words. But I can make an exception and even […]

A simple act of closing a car door inspired this column. Even I find it hard to have so many […]

One of my dreams as a teacher was to be able to greet students years after they’d moved on, and […]

A half dozen of us sat nervously in the advanced English classroom of Mrs. Ruth Shafer, a veteran teacher who, […]

We wuz robbed!” Or, as my English teacher at Immaculate Conception School, Sister Mas Grammatica, would have said, back in […]

Only a few months ago, Bonnie and I flew to Iceland to join our son, Stan, his wife and two […]

For now, let’s simply call them “Kitty” and “Tookta,” the second name pronounced with a long “o,” as in Tuke-tah.” […]

Back in fifth or sixth grade at Immaculate Conception School, Sister Mary Espantosa, ran us through the reading curriculum by […]

Back in the olden days, in the era of black-and-white movies and TV-less households, the weekend highlight for many Las […]