Guest Articles

By Mary Tompsett – Some folks say we’re in for a nasty winter if the squirrels have grown extra tufts of fur on their ears and legs.

By Ted Gargiulo – It started with an electronic sewing machine. I was earning $4.50 an hour at the time, back in 1983. My wife’s old appliance had outlived its usefulness. We couldn’t afford a new one. So we charged it.

by Mary Tompsett – Said the shepherd boy to the little lamb…do I smell like you smell?? Lo! I bring good tidings to all shepherds and unclean accountants! At last, we can quit chowing down on TUMS now that county fairs are no longer in the news.

What is this world coming to?? A police SWAT team raided a mobile home last night on a tip that the residence was being used as a math lab. Authorities seized a cache of supplies for preparing the dangerously addictive math.

by Michael Larson – I just got laid off from a job that I really liked, An HR Assistant for a local berry company,

Hair Apparent – A blonde goes into a nearby store and asks a clerk if she can buy the TV in the corner. The clerk looks at her and says that he doesn’t serve blondes, so she goes back home and dyes her hair black. The next day she returns to the store and asks [...]

A noise woke me up this morning. What was that? The crack of dawn!

By Michael Larson — I use shopping at Pacific Garden Mall in Santa Cruz as an exercise training program. It’s a physical, mental and emotional challenge just to get from one point to the next.