Author: Diana J. Ingram

We often get annoyed when people say things that appear so obvious as to seem insulting. I think my saying that when it is hot things get hot, things get hotter, may seem like one of those foolish statements. But sometimes even...

Closing my eyes I can imagine myself at a booth at a Salute to Seniors event many years ago. I was running for city council and greeting people as they walked by. A good looking couple I had never seen before walked over and...

For what I am about to tell you to make sense you have to go way back over sixty years. If my brother, Jeff, and I were really good my mother would take us to the large Woolworths Store, sort of a five- and ten-cent store. We...

A current game among teenagers is called “Never Have I Ever.” It is supposed to encourage lively, and often embarrassing chatter. When I ask it of myself, the effect can be far more emotional and enlightening. I can vividly...

When we think of the empire dynasties, we think of China and Rome. The Barrymores were a theatrical dynasty, the Kennedys a political dynasty. But Los Banos had its own dynasty, consisting of three Falasco brothers—Ted, Robert...