Goodbye Mervyn’s. We’ll miss you. You know, I’ve had a lot of fond memories involving Mervyn’s. My parents and I moved to Sacramento (from Kailua, HI) around Thanksgiving, 1982. Within hours of arriving, I was inside a Mervyn’s buying a big, thickly insulated ski-style jacket (even though I didn’t ski; but I swear I’m gonna […]
Posted by Thomas Atkins on 06 Jan 2009 at 7:23 pm under Columns | Link
My New Year’s resolution – since I’m still in shock over my recent engagement, is to be the best husband and new father I can possibly be! I’d left for Christmas vacation in Utah, semi-single, cause we were already together. I came back with one wet knee, and now the girlfriend, Heather Dobbin, has a […]
Posted by Thomas Atkins on 06 Jan 2009 at 7:23 pm under Columns | Link
Former Summerville High foreign exchange student, Anja Fischer, enjoys reading the Sierra Mountain Times in Bryce Canyon National Park while on vacation with her family before returning to her home in Germany.
Posted by Thomas Atkins on 06 Jan 2009 at 7:22 pm under Columns | Link
“I look forward to reading Greg’s entertaining column and keeping up with the nuggets of news from California’s
great Gold Country. Keep sighting and writing those items Greg.” – Lee Houskeeper, in response to Greg Kristapovich’s Greg’s Happening’s column.
Posted by Thomas Atkins on 06 Jan 2009 at 7:22 pm under Columns | Link
Not a Good Match
Auburndale, MA – A can of gasoline and a drunken, suicidal man never make a good match…but when he can’t seem to figure out how to ignite the gasoline, the results turn from a dramatic, fiery furnace to nothing more than a gasoline stained carpet. Yet either way, the man paid severely […]
Posted by Thomas Atkins on 06 Jan 2009 at 7:22 pm under Columns | Link