Commentary: Usually, coming up with an opener takes so much effort I take the rest of the day off. But running up against a ...

Writing can be an albatross around the neck. Or it can be an adventure of great expectations leading to profitable ends. For Alex Z. Salinas, writing is a wild roller-coaster ride with its curvy ...

Leafing through your Sunday newspaper, steaming cup of coffee in hand, you have no doubt seen commentary articles – opinion pieces written by local citizens and business leaders focusing on specific ...

The most gratifying thing about writing these commentaries is the feedback I get. It doesn’t matter if the feedback is positive, or negative (though I like the positive kind better). Feedback tells me ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

And getting two on one commentary is almost as good as winning the lotto. OK, that’s hyperbole, but you get the idea. I did a commentary on gun control for the first week of May, which did indeed ...