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• Reflections on a Wedding Anniversary

  My wife Vaune and I will celebrate our anniversary this week.  Anniversaries often get me thinking about how marriages succeed over the years.…

• Spring time in Yosemite National Park

  "Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space." -Ansel Adams The waterfalls are a great and wonderful attraction in the Yosemite Valley.…

• Book Reading Binge

  My college English teacher Mrs. Samuels told us over thirty years ago about a habit she started several years prior to that time.…

• How a Small Upstate New York Village Used Corn to Put Itself on the Map

  The Rotary Club I belonged to in Avon, New York is celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of a summer festival that has put the community on the map.…

• Learning From Teaching

  I have the first graders at Elmer Wood Elementary School in Atwater to thank for giving me a reason to have hope for our future generations. I presented a Junior Achievement program to Ms Harris’ class on May 5.…

• You never forget your first job. And I have a picture to remind me of just how special that time was.

  The webmaster of this site, Brad Haven, is always challenging me to provide a picture with my columns.  He has explained to me how a picture can help illuminate a point.…

• My Eight Years as an Altar Boy

  Altar boy In the wake of the recent celebration of Holy Week and Easter, I got to thinking about some of the times I experienced as a boy and young adult in upstate New York.…

• The E-Reader and the B-M-T-R List

  I won a prize at the Greater Merced Chamber mixer the other night. I try to attend a few of the Chamber’s monthly networking events during the year.…

• Volunteerism

  My good friend Jim North invited me to speak before the Merced Kiwanis at the club’s February 16 meeting.  He asked me to prepare some comments about volunteerism as the club is trying to attract new members.…