By JEFF ROUBEL Martinez News-Gazette Columnist “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to …
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By JEFF ROUBAL Martinez News-Gazette Columnist While Vivian and I were camping in Kings Canyon a couple weeks ago, we made beef stew for dinner. …
By JEFF ROUBAL Things sometimes turn out as you never expected — usually to the better! In 1983, Vivian and I were living in Hayward. …
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 …
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 …
By JEFF ROUBAL Martinez News-Gazette Contributor “May you live in interesting times.” – A traditional Chinese curse One of my current projects is to build …
My mother believed in fate. She’d often say, “It will happen when it’s supposed to happen but it wouldn’t hurt to help it along.” When …
By JEFF ROUBAL Martinez Gazette Contributor Tomorrow will be our 24th annual Bike to Work Day – a day for everyone to ride a bicycle …
By JEFF ROUBAL Martinez Gazette Contributor More than 200 worshippers from Saint Catherine of Siena Catholic church processed through the streets of downtown Martinez on …
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 …