Author: Diana J. Ingram

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...

Have you ever been really lost? The kind of lost where your car is still moving, but it doesn’t not seem to have any idea where it is headed? Two hours lost? The Fresno area (where I’ve recently moved to) and I are yet to become...