Numbers? Y’ want numbers?! A recent MarketWatch article has ‘em: Two researchers from Oxford University, the world’s No. 1 rated university, include Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frye being quoted by the lead Global Economist for the Vanguard Corporation, Joe Davis: In five years, 47 percent of U.S. jobs will be automated, affecting – and […]
Everyday Feng Shui: Feng Shui gratitude – Make Thanksgiving every day
“If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.” — Norman Vincent Peale Blessings come in many forms, and expressing gratitude and enthusiasm for even the smallest blessings has been found to lead to a happier more fulfilling life. Every morning when I wake up I can […]
Benicia Letters Once More: Learning and Growing
The following “letter” is part of the continuing series from the unpublished novel by James Garrett, “Benicia Letters Once More”. He does not plan to publish the book but instead is choosing to share the letters with the readers of the Benicia Herald. The letters continue the storyline of Garrett’s first novel “Benicia and Letters […]
Mrs. B’s Blather: What is the alchemy of a happy coupling? (Guest column by Christina Arrustudo)
It is as though every person is a puzzle piece, with a set of dips and rounds unique as a snowflake. Most people go through life trying to find that proper match, but they meet neither. They find someone whose one indent exact snaps into their one protrusion (yes, sex often pays a major role […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: What Happened to Forever?
Life was smooth and easy As each day just slipped along You and me together We were both where we belonged I think it was a Wednesday In the winter or the fall That we began to bicker About what I don’t recall You said, “You were the on that said…” I said, “You said […]
A Different Drummer: A gripping tail of the dog that never was
It was a bleak November in Hill Valley, a fictional town invented by a local columnist to begin a short story because he felt the oxymoronic ambiguity juxtaposed in the title would allow him to be open in how he described the town because he as yet did not know what to make of it. […]
Voice of the Village: The oldest woman in the world
By Judie Donaldson I just read something that was so inspiring that I wanted to share it with you right away. It’s about a French woman who holds the record for the oldest women who’s ever lived. Care to venture a guess about how old she was? C’mon. Take a minute before you continue reading. […]
Poetry Corner: Bud Light “To Be a Success”
He said it almost casually As if He expected that I knew Or should know What was true. He was a man I had seen, and heard Many times; Among his peers, then as now, Considered a giant; A success, I guess. He had an ease about him Unbefitting, I thought, A man of such […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Rain”
It was raining then, as it is raining now. The drops cooling the earth where we made our first vow. The wind brings again that breath of chill, That I knew before when you loved me still. The drops dance lightly round my face, Mixing their bodies with the tears they erase. A muffled sigh […]
Craig Snider: Time for sensible approach to cannabis ordinance
I’ve been following Benicia’s progress toward implementing the 2016 Adult Use of Marijuana Act (Proposition 64). Californians passed the act with a 57 percent majority, with 42 percent voting against. In Benicia, it passed with 63 percent of voters in favor. After decades of debate over the pros and cons of cannabis use, we’ve finally […]