Columns

by Phyllis McCrossin It’s a quiet Sunday here in California. King, our daughter and grandsons are helping their other grandmother aka YaYa, move some reptile tanks in her home. She…

by Kathy Hamman Miller It’s the ideal recipe for a chilly winter day. Ingredients: Three cups cooked chicken cut up into bite size pieces 1/2 cup of finely grated parmesan…

by Robert M. Traxler The polar vortex is on the way, and it will be dangerously cold. As I spent years in Alaska, to include the Arctic where cold is…

by Robert M. Traxler Have we become a nation that lives for today and forgets tomorrow? The tragedy in Southern California brings back memories of mass disasters in the past…

by Phyllis McCrossin It’s Saturday as I write this. King and I moved to a new location on Monday. It’s ideal, and it isn’t ideal.  We are in the yard…

Some of the greatest changes in journalism over the past century are in the ways deaths are reported. I’m not talking about the spectacular, I’m writing about the most common.…

by Robert M. Traxler The United States Surgeon General says that any alcohol use is detrimental to your health and contributes to at least six types of cancer. This announcement…

by Phyllis McCrossin It’s the third day of the new year as I write this. I’m not certain it has any significance other than three days ago it was the…