By Ken Paulk BENICIANS AND BEYOND, We’re well into the summer and we’ve moved from the kitchen to outdoors. Moderation or excess have been the two choices of my life, but when it comes to cooking outside, excess always wins out. I remember way back in college I was supposed to be some kind of […]
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A Different Drummer: Wonderland Express
By Steve Gibbs AS SCHOOL DAYS RETURN, the conversation at the Gibbs residence shifts to the logical topic of retirement. Of course, we are excited for school to be in session. Of course, we are eager to meet those shiny, young, expectant faces. Of course, we are thrilled to be doing our job — explaining […]
‘Something for everyone’ at museum this weekend
❒ Music, food, beer featured at ‘Bluegrass & BBQ’ event By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Down-home music, home-cooked barbecue and home-brewed suds — the Benicia Historical Museum is venturing into knee-slappin’, lip-smackin’ new territory with Sunday’s “Bluegrass & BBQ” event. “We’ve had lots of concerts here before, we’ve had some inside concerts and outside concerts, […]
Judy Goldsmith: The first epiphany
BY THE TIME I was 11 years old, I’d already seen a lot of movies with fistfights and bloodshed, but none had ever shocked me or even felt real. The actors reminded me of my neighbor’s kids — boys who would chase after each other with fingers cocked in the “gun position” as they rode on their […]
A Different Drummer: Word vomit
By Steve Gibbs I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT TITLE. It was my wife’s suggestion. Everyone knows I always follow all my wife’s suggestions. For example last night, when she said around 6 p.m. while trying to watch the news with me in the room informing her about floaters in my left eye and trying to drive […]
Missed marathon becomes blessing
■ Benicia man’s leg injury kept him from 2013 Boston race By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter Dr. John Huebner was preparing for his seventh Boston Marathon when he re-injured his leg and had to bow out of the race. The Benician, whose Redwood Veterinary Hospital is in Vallejo, is familiar with the usual hoopla […]
Bruce Robinson: Look on the bright side
HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW MUCH PRESIDENT OBAMA and his media acolytes love doom-and-gloom predictions? Whether it’s the extinction of polar bears or collision with a meteor, we are daily harangued with Chicken Little warnings. Usually, of course, these are about “man-caused” calamities. Increasingly of late, they’ve also been about “white man-caused” calamities. In his Feb. […]
Kristine Mietzner: Moving lessons
AS I BEGIN MY 58TH YEAR, I feel blessed that my children are healthy, independent adults. So much time has passed and yet it seems like just yesterday I watched Anna and Ben take their first steps. Raising them, I released my grip slowly while they dashed to independence. We weren’t in the military, but […]
The candle
By Dan Clark MY MOTHER-IN-LAW DIED A FEW WEEKS AGO. Jan. 10, to be exact. It was a clear, cool, sunny Thursday, an otherwise typical January day in the Bay Area. Mollie was 96, an amazing age given that she’d been in a terrible auto accident at age 78, a paralyzing event that gave no […]
Protecting our children: America’s culture of despair that leads to violence
By Woodrow W. Clark II and Grant Cooke WHAT SORT OF CREATURES ARE WE, who can’t protect our children? Even the most primal animals protect their young. Tragically, the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was not new to America. The frequency of violent mass killings — Sandy Hook being only the most recent case, with […]