Bill Kisliuk

“Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!” The sound of my husband’s deep-voiced yell of shock and surprise pulled me out of my reading reverie. And then he did it again, even longer and louder, “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” I jumped up from my dining room chair and headed to where my husband was standing in shock staring into the kids’ play area (what for most people is their den).

The other day I was in the middle of a wood working project and I had a problem – how to make a piece of wood completely flat and square with hand tools. I thought: What would Mr. L'Hommedieu say?

Last March the Register held a contest to “Win Your Own Blog.” Of course I entered, I’m opinionated, well informed on some topics, a good bluffer on others. I like the give and take of the online and I am passionate about my beliefs, particularly when it comes to education. I thought that would make a good blog topic. Well, the very capable Ms. Phoebe Harper won. However, Dan Ross e-mailed me a few days later and said he could be persuaded to have a blog about education.

When danger strikes, our most basic human instinct is to protect children first before we do anything else. We see this scenario replayed over and over again throughout history: when disaster strikes, children are rescued first. Why? Because we are conditioned as humans to protect those who cannot protect themselves, our children first and foremost.

Drive drunk, hit a petestrian and kill him, and what do you get?

Paul Price is taking on a big job. The transportation expert who has more than 30 years of experience — mostly in San Diego County and Seattle — recently became the director of the Napa County Transportation & Planning Agency.

Large-scale manipulation of Friday’s presidential election in Iran was to be expected, but few could have predicted that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had a military coup in mind.

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

No matter how things turn out in Iran in the immediate future, a huge statement has been made by the Iranian people that they want more freedom, and my belief is that in the future we will see the manifestation of their courageous actions.

English is the hardest language to learn. It's a tacitly accepted fact that English, with all its rules (and millions of exceptions) is a very difficult language, sometimes to a point where even native English-speakers have considerable trouble.

What politically-themed issue makes you want to scream?

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