Happy Veteran’s Day. If you would like to do something nice for our military, ask the President to bring them home, not just those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, all of them. Our young men and women are not the…
Author: Doug Noble
The Merry Woods – Pollock Pines
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Merry Woods I first heard about…
Book Review: ‘History of a Place Called Rescue’ – Teie and Carpenter
Title: “History of a Place Called Rescue” Authors: William C. Teie and Francis M. Carpenter Publisher: Deer Valley Press, Rescue, deervalleypress.com, November 2011 Price: $75; flex-binding, 11 x 8.5 inches, 380 pages, four-color. (pre-publication price $52.50 plus tax and shipping.…
Chipotle Mexican Grill – Placerville
“You know how I feel about tacos. It’s the only food shaped like a smile.” — Spoken by the character Earl Hickey in “My Name is Earl,” (2006) Chipotle Mexican Grill A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that…