steve’s column

May 2nd, 2013

Measuring jobs by meter and lyrics

By STEVE LANG

“I’m a lumberjack and I’m O.K….” – from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, sung by Michael Palin

Nadine Stair wrote that if she had her life to live over, she would have picked more daisies.

I write, if I had my life to live over, I should have been an actuary.

Or …

¡ask a mexican!

May 2nd, 2013

Proud to be Mexican and Spanish, too

By GUSTAVO ARELLANO

Dear Mexican: Although I’m familiar with your column, I don’t read it regularly. But today, I was struck by something you said in a recent column about how Mexicans can make Americans like Mexicans. So I quote: “We called ourselves Spanish, we considered ourselves white.” I’m Mexican, and …

high desert sketches

May 2nd, 2013

Sage answers more high desert questions

By GEORGE A. COVINGTON

After I answered a number of deep and mystical questions about West Texas, I was swamped by other readers’ pleas to answer questions that had haunted their psyche for many years.

Bill Ivey, of Ivey’s Emporium sent both a request for answers and a job offer.

George,

I am so …

make it fun

May 2nd, 2013

I think I’ve become my mother

By PAM YOUNG

When I was young, sometimes my mother would ask me to do something for no good reason. Like, “Pam, please clean out the dog’s dish and feed her before we go.” I was a curious child and I probably wore out the word “why,” because when I’d use …

the idle american

May 2nd, 2013

Out-smarted by a smart key

By Dr. Don Newbury

Introspection of retrospection should never be taken lightly. Generally, getting on with life is preferable to dwelling on what might have been.

On rare occasions, though, it is profitable to re-visit bad decisions, declare intent never to make them again, and share details of painful experiences. Perhaps I can …