Category: Diana Ingram

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...

July 2024 has already made a lot of noise besides the fireworks we heard on the Fourth of July. Like us, as we grow older, America has had its share of growing pains. In reality, our entire world is suffering from growing pains,...

Decades ago, Ella Fitzgerald’s song “Heat Wave” was a huge hit and could’ve been written today, as our nation is currently under a heat dome with a record-breaking heat wave. This wave is hitting our beloved Central Valley...

The memory of Father’s Day still lingers like the scent of the barbecues many fathers cooked to celebrate their day. Fathers come in all colors of the rainbow and can range from strictly paternal fathers to down-to-earth dads...

Life is a series of sunsets and sunrises. While many of us were planning fun activities for the long Memorial Day weekend, celebrating the unofficial first day of summer, many of our fellow Americans are also deep in the world...

Yes, it is true. When I was a little girl, still living in Michigan, I saw the Easter Bunny walk down our street — seriously. That Easter Sunday, I awoke extra early to scout out the sacred Easter egg positions in our backyard....

Welcome to Women’s History Month 2024. There are some people I would like you to meet. I am sure you know most of them, but they all have something to tell you. Let me first share one of my favorite quotes about movie star and...

Perhaps you remember the old saying about March, “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” There is much more to say about this third month of ours, more than the reactions “Third month already?” and “Wasn’t just yesterday New Year’s?”...

Through the densely falling rain I can see clearly. Just hours earlier I had walked with my dog Yogi under a painting that was hung in the sky, almost Monet-ish. Shades of blue that would make the greatest artist swoon, drops of...

Hello, I am Jocie, and I am little. You know someone much older, Diana. She let me talk to you for a minute about George Washington. I do not like him one bit—okay, maybe I resent him. You see, Washington’s birthday was such a...