Opinion

Hey, I was there to help, right? Right there in the kitchenette at the Roosevelt Hotel in Anchorage loaned us.

This And That * It’s that time of year when other women look cute in their flannel shirts and I look like I’ve misplaced my axe. * If you remember opening that little triangular “wing window” in the front seat of the car to get a breeze right in your face, you were living the good life! * The...

A woman walks into a psychiatrist’s office and says, “Doctor, you’ve got to do something about my husband—he thinks he’s a refrigerator!” “I wouldn’t worry too much about it,” says the doctor. “Lots of people have harmless delusions.

This And That * It is important to listen to our bodies. Mine keeps saying, “You need those tacos.” * By a vote of 1 to 0, I have decided to stay home tonight.

In a few days, all those rhymers who lived in Tin Pan Alley back when Gertie was a pup will be fulfilled once again. How’s that you say? Was a love song ever written that didn’t have the moon in it? And the full moon will be here in a couple of days, and it is our responsibility to look at it.

This and That * Remember 9/11 * A year without Charlie. I am one of thousands of people who never personally knew him other than what I would watch online, but I feel like I lost a friend.

Every once in a blue moon, I learn something from the computer. Not often, of course, because they change the rules on how to use it about three times a day, and I was never that fast.

A small boy was sent to bed by his father. Five minutes later, the boy cries out, “Dad, I’m thirsty.

This And That * Love that the Stockton Grade School and Junior High students start their mornings by coming together to recite the Pledge of Allegiance on Monday through Thursday, and sing the National Anthem on Fridays. God Bless America! * Okay, it is getting closer to my favorite time of year!

The moon turned the horses and mules silver with its magic. It gave the packer an unspoken pleasure to look back on a sinuous Sierra snake of eleven animals stretched in a flexible line nearly 150 feet long behind him.