Mary Ann Riojas, Fresno's queen of the "Extreme Home Makeover," was on the Alan Autry Show today.  She was born with multiple birth defects, no legs and only part of one arm. She says she thinks she was born this way for some unknown reason.  I don't know about that, but from my point of view, nothing stops [...]

If you aren't excited about our current giveaway, you should be. I've seen Stomp perform on its previous two visits to Fresno (late 1990s and 2004 or 2005), and it's great family fun. Last time I took my entire family, including my baby, and this time I'm going with my three daughters. It's nontraditional music [...]

I see in The Bee that Susan Boyd of Kerman is the mother of the year! Congratulations to her!  I'm sure she would be the first to say that she stands in for all of us. There is no mother like our own mother. I'm impressed that she has the  family over for dinner every [...]

Two of my kids have been sick since last December with the flu, and I can't help but wonder if they were infected with the infamous swine strain.  The first one had a temp of 103, and literally had to be in bed. I took him to the doctor right away, because it didn't seem [...]

Negotiations are frequent in our household between the parental units and the 12- and 15-year-olds about (more) piercings and tattoos. My answer, as far as the remaining years they live at home, is that less (or none, in the case of tattoos) is more. So it boggles my mind that a father would HOLD DOWN [...]

Dr. APS Sidhu, who specializes in treating the aged, gave some great advice on the Alan Autry Show today talking about that devastating, incurable illness known as Alzheimer's and dementia. I was shocked to hear that 600,000 Californians have this disease and it's going to double every five years as the Baby Boomers age. His big message was [...]