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Yuma Sun

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Opinion: MEMORIES OF A 1970S CHRISTMAS

18.12.2024 2

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Sign me up for cursive

12.12.2024 2

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Opinion: Sign me up for cursive

by Tom Purcell on December 2, 2024 The death of cursive handwriting reared its ugly head during the recent presidential election. Since 2010,...

04.12.2024 5

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Why kids can’t walk alone

A story from my childhood came to mind as I read a recent ABC News report about a mother who was arrested after her son was seen walking alone to the...

04.12.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Why I still love “The Waltons”

One of the great benefits of streaming TV is that I’m able to watch old network shows that I enjoyed while growing up in the 1970s. One of my...

29.11.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Celebrating Our Great Americans

When he was told he had only weeks to live, his response was telling. He was calm and at peace. At 82, he told his children he had lived much longer...

15.11.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Dying makes life worth living!

Get this: life expectancy has apparently hit its peak. According to msn.com, a recent study published in the journal Nature Aging finds that, barring...

07.11.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: The sweet taste of Halloween

Not until it got dark! That was the trick or treating rule my mother set down every year. She didn’t want me to embarrass her by interrupting...

31.10.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Re-embracing the American spirit

When I was a 14-year-old kid in 1977, I rode my bike, played ball with my friends and had virtually no responsibility. During that same time, halfway...

12.10.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: My father, the crook and the British sports car

I’ll never forget the look on my father’s face when he learned about the crook who stole my British sports car. It was the spring of 1988 and I...

04.10.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Offering some tax advice

As a self-employed writer, I’ve become knowledgeable about how high my income taxes really are. Every now and then I like to reply to readers with...

26.09.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Think twice before relocating to a rural home

As more Americans can do their jobs from any remote location, a trend has been to relocate from urban and suburban areas to lower-cost, rural areas,...

16.09.2024 4

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: The house we live in

I’ve been listening to old crooners on Pandora lately, and one of my favorite Frank Sinatra songs is “The House I Live In.” Sinatra performed...

10.09.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Opinion: The house we live in

by Tom Purcell on September 3, 2024 I've been listening to old crooners on Pandora lately, and one of my favorite Frank Sinatra songs is "The House I...

05.09.2024 10

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest column: My ‘David Cassidy’ haircut

Editor’s note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell’s humorous memoir, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,” that was previously...

04.09.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Opinon: My Davidy Cassidy haircut

by Tom Purcell on August 27, 2024 Editor's note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell's humorous memoir, "Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,"...

30.08.2024 3

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: America’s last truly free market

All anybody needs to know about a free economy is that it is alive and well thanks to social-media flea markets, such as Facebook Marketplace. While...

30.08.2024 8

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Why price controls don’t work, even for pencils

Why do some politicians and bureaucrats constantly forget that when governments meddle in our mostly free market that bad things happen? Vice...

23.08.2024 6

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Government-mandated vacations

Sen. Bernie Sanders has sponsored a bill to mandate paid vacations for all employees. Like so many of Bernie’s proposals, it sounds good until you...

15.08.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Survivor of a baby boomer childhood

Editor’s Note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell’s book, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood.” The MSNBC.com article said that kids...

09.08.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Forgetting our Olympic woes

Bowling didn’t make the cut again. Neither will baseball and softball, ballroom dancing, pole dancing and a host of other sports be featured in the...

01.08.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Columnist: We need a better load of BS

What a bunch of BS. BS is all over television, blogs, podcasts and newspapers these days. It’s spouted by politicians and pitched by product...

26.07.2024 6

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: My childhood neighborhood did not raise assassins

I grew up in Bethel Park, the middle-class suburb south of Pittsburgh where 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks lived with his parents. Crooks’...

19.07.2024 9

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Fond memories of our Fourth of July gatherings

I miss watching the spectacular fireworks display at Eddie G’s house every Fourth of July. Eddie G. was my grandmother’s longtime companion. For...

11.07.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: How air conditioning changed politics and the world

Thank God Willis Haviland Carrier invented air conditioning – for the most part. Before air conditioning, the heat drove us outside and brought us...

08.07.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Government largesse for writers

During the Great Depression, the government established the Works Progress Administration. The program hired nearly 8 million unemployed people to...

01.07.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Beware increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity scams

Here’s a story that is growing bigger by the day: Cyber scams are on the rise. My elderly family member fell for a common scam a few weeks ago: His...

24.06.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Needed: The common sense humor of Will Rogers

Our politics sure is divided these days. Tempers are flaring and minds are rigid and closed. Here’s the solution: the wit and wisdom of legendary...

10.06.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Memories of my free-range childhood

It was the first time in my childhood I had an excuse for coming home late for dinner, but nobody – not even the cops – would listen. In the...

02.06.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: For Memorial Day, honoring family members of those who serve

Ida Ayres never served a day in the armed forces, but at 95, she knows plenty about the sacrifices of war. “Through six wars, I have been the...

27.05.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: The importance of home ownership

18.05.2024 30

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: For Mother’s Day — teaching the art of laughter

12.05.2024 70

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Longing for the days of email rudeness

Boy, is technology making us ruder. It all started with email. You see, long before the era of nasty Facebook posts and mean tweets – long before...

28.04.2024 30

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

LONGING FOR THE DAYS OF EMAIL RUDENESS

by Tom Purcell on April 22, 2024 Boy, is technology making is ruder. It all started with email. You see, long before the era of nasty Facebook posts...

24.04.2024 10

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Take our daughters and sons to grandma’s

‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” is on April 25, and I think we should try something different this year: Let’s take our daughters and...

22.04.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: A good month to prevent distracted driving

‘It wasn’t my fault the car in front of me hit me. I glanced at my text message for only a second when our bumpers collided.” “How could the...

16.04.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

A GOOD MONTH TO PREVENT DISTRACTED DRIVING

by Tom Purcell on April 8, 2024 "It wasn't my fault the car in front of me hit me. I glanced at my text message for only a second when our bumpers...

10.04.2024 10

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Message for my digital goddaughter

My 13-year-old goddaughter still can’t understand how telephone busy signals used to work. She can’t help it. At 13, she’s a member of the Gen...

01.04.2024 20

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Still living the American Dream

26.03.2024 7

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Missing my Irish ancestors

Piglet! My Irish surname means piglet! Like millions of Americans, I’ve been poking into my heritage using ancestry sites, such as FamilySearch.com....

17.03.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: No brainer

Get this: Men and women’s brains are different. Using a powerful, first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence model, Stanford Medicine was able to...

15.03.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Will forgiving college debt win or lose votes?

President Biden recently sent an email to 153,000 student-loan borrowers reminding them to vote for him this autumn. Actually, his email said that he...

07.03.2024 6

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Reading more books is good for America

When I read about the “silent book club” trend, it filled me with instant calm and hope. As it goes, in 2012, two friends in San Francisco came up...

25.02.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Shaming Girl Scout cookies

I’m in hiding again, as I always am this time of the year. We’re in the thick of Girl Scout Cookie season, after all, and I’m on my winter diet....

09.02.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: When fun is against the law

The city of Toronto is in the news for outlawing sled and toboggan riding on 45 of its hillsides. According to the Toronto Star, the ban has sparked a...

27.01.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Our over-coddled kids

Get this: Gen Z job applicants are bringing their parents to job interviews, reports the New York Post. As it goes, for several decades America’s...

20.01.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: The urgency to become cyber-secure in 2024

Cyber attacks will be significantly worse in 2024 for anyone who uses a digital device. Yet few are aware of, or prepared for, the threats they face...

07.01.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: A win-win New Year’s resolution

Here’s a great New Year’s resolution: get a pet. As we wrap up a very inflationary 2023, pet shelters across the country are at maximum capacity...

01.01.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Restoring Christmas joy

The best Christmas gift I ever gave anyone was the one I gave my father about 20 years ago: a Lionel train set. Every year, we got him the same gifts,...

25.12.2023 10

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Let’s make America profane again

Here’s a regrettable trend: as profanity has become commonplace, swear words are losing their usefulness. The Wall Street Journal reported this week...

21.12.2023 4

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

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