Ola! Cheerio! Bonjour! Ciao! Yassou! Salve! Hello! Jeff and I just returned from a Mediterranean cruise. Wow. Totally awesome. Wow. What else do you say …
Tag: At Home with Vivian
By JEFF ROUBAL Martinez News-Gazette Columnist I have finished enough home improvement projects to understand that the final product is never one hundred percent what …
No more pencils No more books No more teacherâs Dirty looks! Itâs count down time! Just a few more hours until Martinez school hallways will …
By JEFF ROUBAL Martinez News-Gazette Contributor âMay you live in interesting times.â â A traditional Chinese curse One of my current projects is to build …
By JEFF ROUBAL Martinez News-Gazette Contributor A friend at the American Legion asked me last week to update his telephone number on the membership list. …
My mother believed in fate. Sheâd often say, âIt will happen when itâs supposed to happen but it wouldnât hurt to help it along.â When …
Say, hey, good lookinâ Whatcha got cookinâ? Howâs about cookinâ somethinâ up with me? Hey, sweet baby Donât you think maybe We could find us …
âHow would you like to go out for dinner tonight?â my normally thrifty husband Jeff asked on Saturday afternoon. What? Jeff is actually willing to …
By JEFF ROUBAL Special to the Gazette Everyone loves getting letters and packages in the mail. Mail is one way that Vivian and kept our …
Every week I trek down to the Martinez News-Gazette office for extra copies of my column to mail off to my three adult children. I …