‘Oliver’: Heart-wrenching and sentimental
When Charles Dickens wrote “Oliver Twist,” a heart wrenching/sentimental story about the poor and the mistreatment of children in the early 1800s, I imagine the last thing on his mind was a musical about his hero's journey from orphan to finding his upper class family.
A year for pine siskins, red crossbills and red-breasted nuthatches
A what year for what? Many of our feathered friends from Canada are enjoying the relative warmth, sunshine and especially the abundant food of South Valley this winter.
A 2020 vision for a clean energy nation
New Year's Eve serves as an occasion for considering lessons
‘I Love Lucy’: A trip back in time
It’s hard to believe that 60 years has past since “I Love Lucy” mesmerized us and had us in fits of laughter with the ever-so-funny plots that Lucy managed to wiggle in and out of.
