We recently spent a day at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California. It was a day filled with smiles.

 Despite the Great Recession, unemployment pushing 20 percent, food bank requests multiplying by double digits, McDonald's just opened its first restaurant in Calaveras County.

If you've ever tried to get a housefly out of your car and failed, you know the frustration I'm dealing with.

Some sunrises are dazzling, saturating the world in a rosey glow that just promises today is the best day of your life..

I realize that election advertising keeps a lot of people employed -- advertising agencies, artists, photographers, video production groups, writers, designers, etc. -- and in this Great Recession economy every job is precious. But I cannot stand election advertising.

For me a graveyard is a history book, recording lives and deeds as well as deaths.