Animals are often named after some physical characteristic they may have such as the black bear or the white-tailed deer or the duck-billed platypus. They may also derive their name from a sound they make such as the screech owl...
Read MoreWeight-bearing cartilage is attached to the ends of your bones. Traumatic injuries can cause a small area of damage in otherwise excellent cartilage. The name of the damage is Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD), Dissecans means...
Read MoreThe concept of Karma has always reminded me of a boomerang. What we put out there often comes back, good and bad. I am a big believer in the power of random kindness, or kindness in any category. I also believe that if we do...
Read MoreBy Rev. Stephen HammondBETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCH “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one...
Read MoreI never thought I’d be watching a major league baseball game in Sacramento, but last Wednesday I traveled to Sutter Health Park to watch the Athletics (minus the preface Sacramento) play a day game in their first home series of...
Read MoreMost of us are aware of the Chicken Little fairytale. This time-told story has many similar versions. The basics and moral teachings remain the same. Chicken Little gets hit...
Read MoreBirders from all around the globe often come to central and northern California to observe a member of the corvid family that exists nowhere else on the planet. The yellow-billed magpie (Pica nuttelli) is not only native to the...
Read MoreREV. BOB GILBERGOlive Branch Community Church of Firebaugh I grew up on the south side of the San Francisco Bay Area. I was raised in a small town on a cul-de-sac with many neighbors and children. When I was ten years old, my...
Read MoreAs a long-time resident of Los Banos, I am pleased to hear about the planned renovation of the Colorado Park complex. In truth, I’m pleased to hear news of any park development, because I believe parks are an important part of a...
Read MoreAs I sit down for this week’s column, I cannot get out of my head the well-known line from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land.” He penned, “April is the cruelest month.” In the Midwest where Eliot was raised, April was a muddy...
Read MoreBY CHRISTINA MARTINEZ, LCSWContributing Writer Mental health remains a taboo subject in many Latino communities, where seeking therapy is often viewed as a sign of weakness or something only for people with “serious” problems....
Read MoreIf you were to take the temperature of most of our country right now, it would probably be pretty hot. I offer here one way to bring down the temp, maybe just a wee bit, on the one-to-one basis with a tried-and-true old method....
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