E-views In the weekly feature called "e-views," we invite readers to answer a question via email. Spring has sprung, but it's usually short-lived in East Contra Costa. What do you enjoy most about spring, and what are your favorite must-do spring activities?
Don't Mind the Mess I have more than my share of fears: rodents, deep water, unexplained sounds in the middle of the night, teenagers...those kinds of things. But there’s one fear that can paralyze me like no other: The blank page. Or, as I guess you’d say in the modern age, the blank computer screen.
Playing fair I ONCE had an American teacher who always reminded her students to be fair. Rather than warning us not to cheat during examinations, she’d tell us to be fair to those who really studied and prepared well for the test. By constantly repeating this to us during our weekly short tests, nobody dared to cheat in her class when the final lengthy exams came. As I grow older, I hear a lot of people ...