Author: Diana J. Ingram

If you can hear the sound of cheers echoing from Los Banos, it is probably the voices of the Alzheimer’s Support Group cheering about once more being the top team in Merced County’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s. This is the eighth...

Oh the depths of October, which spans history, controversy, social issues and taking a stand as leaves change colors across the land. While trick-or-treating lingers in the air, everyone will have to wait another week. Most of...

Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill’s “September Song” (“Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December / But the days grow short / When you reach September”) is a song I’ve heard all my life. In fact, I’m sure I first heard it...

I will meet you on the downside. From here, it can only be up. What does not break us makes us stronger. Nothing is so good or so bad that it lasts forever. I have fallen and cannot get up. In every dark cloud, there is a silver...

Last week, I attended my great-grandson Grayson’s (son of Jessica and Ricky Abejuela) first birthday party. It was another sweltering day in Los Banos, one of many steaming days this summer, which seems to be on steroids. The...