During the past few months, I’ve seen many references to Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” (1984, 311 pages in softcover format)....

When I was sixteen and seventeen, I was a carry-out boy for Lucky Stores in Palo Alto. But three months before I turned 18, I graduated...

Twenty years ago, shortly after Hurricane Katrina, I went home to visit my family. At this time, I had already been a Maderan for 10...

Aside from being a great read, Lisa Scottoline’s “Running from the Law” (2022, 448 pages in hardback format) is an excellent guide on how...

There is not a world record pothole. I looked it up. I have several on my road that are big and bigger. One, I stepped off as 8 feet by 6...

The story, as reported in last Friday’s edition of CALMATTERS, begins with a photograph of huge towers outside the city of Hanford. It is...

I’ve read a few of Greg Iles’ more recent novels, all stand-alones, and I enjoyed each of them. I decided to do a quick search on the...

Central California feeds the state and the nation. Yet too often, our region does not receive the same investment in health care that we...