Sierra Mountain Times

My Husband the Engineer
I just did the math. I’ve been married to my husband now for 84 years. Ok, I admit, I’ve never pretended to be very good at math…well, in all honesty, I have pretended – but it never did me any good.
Now where was I? Ah yes, my husband of 84 years. Actually, […]

I Will Honor Him
By Bonnie Hernandez
The day Pearl Harbor was attacked Arthur was 17 years old, a junior in high school and not really motivated about continuing his education. He was under his car early that morning with the radio on when the news broke and immediately went down to the recruiters and signed up, […]

Movie Critic
I’m not sure if he was serious, but Paul Krismantis’ statements about his self-professed political expertise (and I’m assuming our corresponding ignorance), because he is a political science major, are condescending in the least. He must be daydreaming in class, because to compare George W. Bush with Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt […]

My daughter came running up to my wife with eyes wide open and a look of disbelief. “Mommy, Mommy, Mommy! The man fixing the sink, his pants are falling off!” My wife, wondering what in the world was going on, had to go and investigate. As the both of them peeked around the corner my […]

Sometimes the urge to write strikes us when prompted by a thought or memory that we don’t want to forget, so we write it up right then. In this third piece of the series on writing, I will address how to use those potentially disconnected pieces in your book.
#3 ) Making Sense of What You […]