When I came through the door of the Hanford Sentinel and said I wanted to write a column, the editor I spoke with agreed to let me try it out.  I’m pretty sure he figured he was signing up for a one off deal.  I had different ideas.  So, a couple of days after my [...]

In the summer of 1995, I started writing a column for the local newspaper in the relatively small town where I grew up.  The paper was the Hanford Sentinel, the town was Hanford, California – population 30,000.  At the time, there were by far more cows than people.  I was 15 years old and about [...]