He finished breakfast, then stood up to leave the restaurant with his friends. As he was pulling on his jacket near our table, I spotted his 49ers t-shirt. Sort of a camel color with red print and logos. I smiled up at him and said, “You are definitely the bravest man in this room.” ...

For a farm family fun comes whenever you have the time. Most of our fun was done at home. We had a few minutes and we made use of it. First, it was the children, then the grandchildren. We loved to make snowmen. We rolled the biggest ball around the yard, then set it where we were going to ...

Walter’s Christmas was happy – and delicious. Walter is my granddog. I have loved him since our first meeting. My bachelor son, Bart, adopted the 8-week old puppy 8 years ago. They’ve been attached at the hip ever since. Bart and Walter, a white Labrador Retriever, live downtown in ...

It is troublesome to read Times Observer letters and columnists, and listen to ultra right media views that are based on the assumption that America is or should be a Christian theocracy. America’s house of worship has many and varied rooms similar to the many and various branches of my ...

This whole farming business was new to me. We had gone together for a couple years so I knew what to expect. Dick’s parents went down to visit with her sisters and husbands on Christmas Eve. Chores had to be done early so that could happen. Sometimes my husband ended up finishing things up so ...

It’s been 18 years since we sent trail mix to Iraq. My son, Bart, was a Marine pilot. He flew the Cobra gunship, an attack helicopter that protected the Marines on the ground. A nasty machine. Having been gone for months, his squadron was deployed to Al Asad, Iraq during Christmas, 2005. ...