Good News Dept. What comprises tidings of great joy are a matter of opinion, of course, but there are some things which have recently brought a smile to my face. The rainstorms […]
Raindrops keep falling … good!
Don’t get burned in Hot Stove
This time of year is what used to be called The Hot Stove League, when baseball was shuttered for six months and fans theoretically gathered around a warm kitchen appliance – today […]
It was Garden Galoshes then
You call this … weather? I don’t mean to disregard the discomfort and danger posed to some by the rainstorm that hit Southern California this week. People who live near the beach […]
Taylor blitzes the sports world
It’s no longer our world. It belongs to Taylor Swift and we just live in it. A bit of an exaggeration, but it’s tough to overstate the impact that the hugely popular […]
Women in MLB? Bye to Big A?
As I wrote in Saturday’s column, the world of sports is undergoing a sea change. Among the developments are: • Women are becoming sports officials at the major league level and rising […]
How to get/keep love alive
In less than a month, it will be Valentine’s Day. Just in case you haven’t noticed, there are whole aisles in Vons and CVS devoted to this annual, highly commercialized celebration of […]
Our local ‘believe it or not’
Can you believe that … • The Westminster City Council spent hours recently arguing over when the Republic of (South) Vietnam become independent? That one of those arguing – who has been […]
The shape of things to come
If you can tune your ears to something other than the beer commercials, endless time-filling chatter on the sports networks and endless speculation on just what the heck has happened of Stetson […]
What you need to do in 2024
One of the biggest clichés of January is the New Year’s resolution thing. Quitting smoking. Losing weight. Stop procrastinating. Clearing out the clutter. Stop being so negative. And on and on. The […]
It is a real ducky dilemma
There are almost always two sides to a story. Sometimes there are three or four. In a recent column, I urged the powers that be that in reconfiguring the Civic Center Park […]
