Like most people, I've been called many things in my life. Some I could list, others I can't, many I can't remember but all of which fall in the common lot of shortcomings so none would surprise.
Sunday: glorious. Monday: good, good being anything under 90.
Cop Tales are true stories as told by law enforcement officers from all over the country. The stories are told in the first person. The actual officer’s initials follow each story.
A friend went to a friend's party. He said it was good except for one thing: "There were too many old people there," he reported.
It can be so difficult, the 40-something mother of two was telling me, to know what to believe. Reliable, undistorted information is in such short supply. People will just take as fact whatever they see on TikTok or the news ...
The Kern River got a lot of love this National CleanUp Day with two groups picking up trash along different sections of the river on Saturday.
I've decided to practice yoga again. "My practice," which is how devotees refer to yoga, is in its infancy. This means I bought a purple mat, put it in the closet and forgot about it. I felt virtuous and as if I was doing yoga, because I had a mat.
All a man needs is love. That was the message from Novak Dojokovic when he bowed his head and shed tears two games before losing to Daniil Medvedev in the finals of the U.S. Open Sunday.
South High School sophomore Kevin Esparza plans to go to Bakersfield College and then Harvard University after graduating. But he has more pressing matters at the moment. He first wants to buy his disabled mom a house and a vehicle that will accommodate her wheelchair so she can make her doc…
The appointment finally made, my husband and I felt quite mature as we entered our lawyer's office to write our will. Right away, I was surprised when our lawyer said, "Well, you're writing two wills." We had talked for so long about writing a will that, in my mind, it was a singular documen…
Mary Serna called with a newspaper question.Â
Cop Tales are true stories as told by law enforcement officers from all over the country. The stories are told in the first person. The actual officer’s initials follow each story.
The palm trees in Beverly Hills have gotten huge. They're like the Jimi Hendrix lyrics, "Excuse me, while I kiss the sky."
"Dad, do you want this horse head?" Thomas asked.
A lot has happened over the past five years, but not much has changed in the tiny farmworker town of Okieville.
I decided to find out if people I know knew the real meaning of Labor Day.
Cop Tales are true stories as told by law enforcement officers from all over the country. The stories are told in the first person. The actual officer’s initials follow each story.
If you were like me, when there was a piece about Medicare, you'd turn the page and put as much reading distance between it and you. Medicare was a foreign country you hadn't been to and had no intention of visiting. Medicare was for the older and less-agile set.
Among my bad habits is my willingness, in weak moments, to engage in long-distance digital debates with friends and perfect strangers over this evil hoax that Bill Gates and New World Order schemers are attempting to foist on the gullible, docile masses.
On Saturday, I worked outside in the yard from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. I thought I was somebody, I thought I was tough, I thought I could work through anything but when I finished, I thought I might be done for the rest of the weekend.
Cop Tales are true stories as told by law enforcement officers from all over the country. The stories are told in the first person. The actual officer’s initials follow each story.
Recently I watched a television show that I normally don’t. It was quite an eye opener. The words graphic, explicit and foul come to mind. It was only a half-hour show, which means about 21 minutes of content. By the time I really focused on what it contained, most of the advertisements were…
I bought a painting. It's a first and may be a last.
It was New Year’s Eve 2018 and three women, all Bakersfield expatriates, were sitting around the living room of a Huntington Beach home exchanging whatever-happened-to stories about their hometown.
As any person of faith can confirm, a loving relationship with God requires a healthy slice of time and effort. I admit up front that I am not great at this relationship: I do not spend enough time on God. I get busy. I get distracted. I forget. Prayer is often far down on my to-do list.
"How do you solve a problem like Maria?" You don't and when Maria is Julie Andrews you thank God every time she opens her mouth and sings in her classically trained soprano. If Maria is a problem, she's a problem worth listening to.
Nanci Griffith died a few days ago. Maybe you'd heard of her. Maybe not.
As I talked on the phone last week with Juan Alberto Martinez, he said a phrase countless other veterans like him have said before.
Cop Tales are true stories as told by law enforcement officers from all over the country. The stories are told in the first person. The actual officer’s initials follow each story.
Jarred Jensen wasn’t in Afghanistan when, in October 2001, the U.S. military swept in to avenge the single most devastating terror attack on U.S. soil in history.
What do you do with leftovers from vacation? This includes three eggs, half of a half-and-half, four Squirts (hecho in Mexico), enough medium hot salsa to cover an omelet, a bowl of buttery pasta (leftover from leftovers), two soggy Milano cookies and a bag of trail mix sure to clump togethe…
Reader: Why does there have to be an article on every page of the paper regarding the coronavirus or the vaccine? By now I’m sure everybody on the planet knows everything possible for man to know on both subjects, and everybody has their own opinion. Therefore one or two articles would suffice.
Monday started with a call from AT&T.
A battle of groundwater banks is underway in Kern County with accusations that one is poised to mine the local aquifer and sell water outside the area.
It was clear during the first hearing on the Kern River Tuesday that the public has a seat at the table as never before.
My adult daughter Nikki recently went for a check-up at her doctor’s office. She was experiencing a slight cough, headaches and fatigue. We had several medical procedures in the family in the next coming weeks and Nikki just wanted to make sure she and her sister Brenna were OK to nurse us b…
One could look at the ambitious plans for the downtown block of Bakersfield bounded by 21st, 22nd, H and Eye streets and say they are appropriate and overdue, and one would be correct.
I saw two great white sharks in four days. In person. Ten feet away and 5 feet deep, under my red stand-up paddleboard. The first was around 7 feet long and the second 5.
Reader: I am glad the deputy involved in the Wasco family tragedy has been laid to eternal rest. May he RIP. That sincerely said, The Californian has given entirely too much print (text and numerable photographs) to him since the tragedy. I understand this is a local paper reporting local ne…
A new player has entered the legal fray over the Kern River — the public.
Cop Tales are true stories as told by law enforcement officers from all over the country. The stories are told in the first person. The actual officer’s initials follow each story.
Jeremy Adams plays a little game with new students at the start of each semester. He projects faces on the wall of his classroom, one after another, and asks students to identify them.
I learned something about a friend. Now that I know, I can never look at him the same.
I’d almost forgotten what a privilege it is to attend the opening night of a play.
My cousin's son Paul is in his 30s and has been single for a while. He shouldn't be necessarily (he's perfectly delightful on a number of fronts) but he has been and heretofore seems unfazed by the prospect of being unattached. There are other things to do and he has done them happily.
I went to the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale recently. We were taking Lillian, our 4-year-old granddaughter, to a tea at the Westgate Hotel in San Diego and Sue suggested I might want to dress appropriately.
Last Thursday, July 29, Laura Arredondo and her family celebrated the birthday of her late brother, Bakersfield businessman and car dealership owner Jose Arredondo, who was brutally murdered two years ago in Cabo San Lucas. He would have been 63 years old. His lifeless body was found in his …
Cop Tales are true stories as told by law enforcement officers from all over the country. The stories are told in the first person. The actual officer’s initials follow each story.
It might be 9 at night and Johnny Tirado would be out somewhere with his girlfriend. Or 7 in the morning and he’d be getting ready for work.
Positive Cases Among Kern Residents: 136,288
Deaths: 1,521
Recovered and Presumed Recovered Residents: 121,841
Number of Negative Tests: 478,137
Number of Pending Tests*: 426
Updated: 9/21/2021. Source: Kern County Public Health Services Department
*As reported by community healthcare providers.
