During the 1990’s, one of my favorite “fun” authors (in the sense of Max Shulman a few decades earlier or Janet Evanovich now) was Karen...

Not a fan of the expression “Back in the day…” So let’s start out with “Once upon a time…” A young, college girl spent many of her...

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This is going to be a difficult one for me. It’s easy to have thoughts, but not so easy to express those thoughts in words. You could...

Thousands of California’s poorest working families, including many here in Madera, are in danger of losing their subsidized child care in...

David Baldacci’s “King and Maxwell” (2013, 526 pages in paperback) is the last of his six-volume King-and-Maxwell series. This one, I...

A surprise phone call from a friend invited me for breakfast or early lunch on Wednesday. A former Maderan, Ron Fletcher lll and I have...

Vaclav Smil is a numbers freak. Dr. Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a Fellow of the Royal...