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Last year I wrote a column about gratefulness, and I think I’ll revive the idea this year. Twice = tradition. This is my “second annual gratefulness column!”

Common foods are an alternative to the pre-packaged dyes to make

“The city recently put a cheap chip seal coating on our street near Las Animas School. For those who don't know what this is, it's a low cost way of preserving pavement. It's a oil seal with small rocks that stick to it. Basically a mess. The problem is that it has now been a couple months and the small rocks are everywhere. And I mean everywhere, even in the garage and in our house. They have damaged some of our neighbors wood floors. We have called the city to come out and take a look at it and they say this is normal. I can't believe that after months have gone by that the rocks should still be coming up. Nobody in the neighborhood is happy about this and the part that still amazes me is that the streets are only nine years old and did not even need to be sealed. There are much worse streets in Gilroy.”

I'm writing this week's column while waiting for a delayed plane

Who do you regularly lie to? A few years ago a national survey asked that question and recorded the results in the book "The Day America Told The Truth." The results may surprise you: 86 percent of people polled admitted to lying regularly to their parents, 75 percent to friends, 61 percent to their boss, 73 percent to brothers and sisters, 59 percent to their children, and 69 percent admitted to lying regularly to their mates. I wonder what the statistics would have looked like if the book was called "The Day Hollister Told The Truth."