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I have always thought of myself as a dog owner but that term seems to be out of fashion these days. I'm now classified as a pet parent, according to the animal rights people.
I don't think my dog cares what I call myself as long...
Posted by editor
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 15:10:06 PDT
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When I graduated from Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo 50 years ago, I had to pass up commencement because I had a job waiting for me in Bakersfield. Haste was called for because I also had a wife and two kids who had become accustomed to...
Posted by editor
- Mon Oct 9, 2006 16:25:19 PDT
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I often surf the Internet to find new theories about good health habits, as if this will help a guy who is less than a year from turning 80. As I drink my Corona and munch on a hamburger, I flit from one website to another, searching for...
Posted by editor
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 16:34:32 PDT
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It's time I brought you up to date on my war against unwelcome visitors, namely raccoons, gophers and field mice. In general, things are going my way although my dog, Isabella, is experiencing battle fatigue. But more about that later.
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Posted by editor
- Mon Sep 18, 2006 15:50:58 PDT
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My wife hates to be called a news junkie so I'll describe her as a Fox fiend. She turns on the Fox News channel when she first gets up, turning it off only to hit the sack at night.
I'm not complaining because this doesn't deprive me...
Posted by editor
- Tue Sep 5, 2006 16:15:25 PDT
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Steal from one source, it's plagiarism; steal from ten sources, it's research.
—Journalists' inside joke
As if schoolteachers didn't have enough problems with students copying other students' work, now teachers have to keep an...
Posted by editor
- Mon Aug 28, 2006 16:17:48 PDT
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Quick! What's the nation's largest university in terms of enrollment? Yale? Harvard? Notre Dame?
None of the above. You won't believe this but the correct answer is the University of Phoenix. I won't argue if you say this non-Ivy...
Posted by editor
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 17:10:14 PDT
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Retired news anchor Tom Brokaw wrote a book entitled “The Greatest Generation,” which had to do with Americans who survived the Great Depression and fought in World War II.
I'm part of the group Tom referred to and I don't...
Posted by editor
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 16:07:46 PDT
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One of the country's major wind farms is located near Storm Lake, Iowa, only a few miles from where I grew up. Many Tehachapi residents are familiar with Storm Lake because local wind companies have been heavily involved there.
The...
Posted by editor
- Wed Aug 2, 2006 09:58:34 PDT
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One of our friends got pretty well bunged up the other day when she stopped at an intersection just down the street from our house and got rear-ended. I wasn't there so I can only repeat what I was told, which is that she was hit by a...
Posted by editor
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 14:49:02 PDT
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It's been more than two years since we moved into our smaller home in Mountain Aire Estates and we still have a rented storage unit in Old Town that is crammed with things that won't fit into our new place. Frankly, I don't know how they...
Posted by editor
- Wed Jul 19, 2006 09:22:15 PDT
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I never thought I was fixated on food until daughter Maggie's husband, Arch, expressed dismay over our family's tendency to discuss the dinner menu while still eating lunch. That's pretty much how everybody was during my growing-up years...
Posted by editor
- Fri Jul 14, 2006 16:06:21 PDT
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Motorists are so fascinated with the growing number of gadgets offered on new cars that most buyers probably never stop to ask what it will cost to replace this magic stuff if and when it goes south. My wife and I have never worried...
Posted by editor
- Thu Jul 6, 2006 17:42:30 PDT
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Remember Bea Wain? Of course you don't, unless you were born before Hitler took power in Germany.Bea was one of an army of women who brought American music to a pinnacle from which it has steadily dropped. These days, most women singers...
Posted by editor
- Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:42:08 PDT
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A few weeks ago I had a half hour phone conversation with Huell Howser, the long-time host of the television program “California Gold” which continues to draw big audiences to the state's PBS stations. Huell called to thank...
Posted by editor
- Fri Jun 16, 2006 16:47:00 PDT
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