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Decorating eggs at Easter is a tradition most of us grew up with

Scanning the Gilroy radar screen in the Crusader's cave, a couple things popped-up post-Thanksgiving that need mention. Recently, I initiated the Gilroy TRASH award (unTidy Residences Antagonizing Sensible Homes). The qualification for a Gilroy Crusader TRASH award nomination is any residential property in Gilroy on which there exists a condition described as Gilroy residents who let rundown vehicles, overgrown weeds or excessive trash pile up on their front yards that meet the criteria of blighted property according to the Gilroy blight ordinance code.

Shoot the bullet train. Period. End of story. Conceptually, a wonderful idea. That’s what the voters bought – the vision and the promise, a train speeding from San Francisco to Los Angeles with few stops and no airline hassles. The reality is a financial sink hole with a train stuck in the mud. The Gilroy City Council should have stuck to its guns and stayed on the no-confidence vote track. They should backtrack and quit spending time on a project that will be forever frozen in time.

One of the best parts of writing a column is hearing from readers. Everything in this week's column comes from readers.

Whenever I look at a snapshot of Earth taken by astronauts in orbit, I'm struck by the simple fact that we humans have only one world to live on. We live on a planet of life.