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• The sky was the limit for 1939 Phoenix High School graduate
  

  With her leather flying jacket, goggles on her head and parachute strapped on her back, Mary Jean Sturdevant looks tough enough to take on the world...

• Lost and found: A sample of the kindness of strangers
  

  For most folks in our throwaway society, the small piece of cloth wouldn't have merited much more than a cursory glance before they tossed it in the...

• Joining the Twitosphere, kicking and screaming
  

  I tweeted this week. It wasn't a convivial chat with my parrots, Goose and Gaia.

• Too-light scooter? You probably missed the loop
  

  I don't know whether I'm imagining this or not, but on several occasions I have been unable to get the overhead left-turn light signal to function...

• Stop me before I speak again
  

  Elocution wasn't something they taught at Kerby Elementary School when I was an urchin.

• Animal talk — another language of need and love
  

  Do your critters talk to you? Of course they do. But do you listen?

• Improper left, right turns justify a ticket
  

  Back when I started driving, the only four-lane highway in Oregon was from just south of Oregon City on through Milwaukee, old Highway 99.

• Off the Beaten Path: Wonder years
  

  Medford resident Dave Weldon took a drive down reminisce road last Thursday.

• Teasing Mr. Sandman can keep you up at night
  

  It's just after 4 a.m. Saturday as I write this column from my cottage by the Rogue.

• Dream Big
  

  If the world's tallest building, which opened last week in Dubai, were standing in Medford, its top would reach more than 500 feet above Roxy Ann...

• A hunka hunka burnin' birthday love
  

  With all due respect to The King, Elvis isn't the only person celebrating a natal day this week.

• Scouting party hit the trail, and then the trail hit back
  

  Nicholas Barrett is normally a well-mannered youngster who shows respect for his elders.

• Resolute in the desire to ignore resolutions
  

  New Year's resolutions. Do you make them? Are you going to eat better, get more exercise or quit biting your nails in 2010?

• I'm so glad to see this decade end
  

  When the final page of 2009 is turned at midnight Thursday to close the last chapter on this decade, I won't be unhappy to see it fade into history.

• Community's generosity allows many to have a Merry Christmas
  

  Things are quiet here this morning at my cottage on the Rogue River. The parrots are munching on peanut butter and banana toast.

• Songs of the season lift the spirit, fill the soul
  

  Some people love the sight of Christmas lights and decorations. Others love the smells and tastes of special holiday treats.

• Cats have free reign over this man's castle
  

  A teaser headline on the front page of last Monday's Oregonian has been bugging me all week.

• Who let the cat out? ... The Englishman
  

  Icicles dangle from my deck railing, beads of frozen rain slick the wooden slats, and summer's colorful plants are now stiffened stalks of muddy...

• Light One Candle gives us all the chance to spread holiday cheer
  

  Today marks the kickoff of the Mail Tribune's annual holiday giving series "Light One Candle."

• S.F. quake vet lived to be 103
  

  A bit of West Coast history was lost this week with the passing of Medford resident Margaret French Cramer.

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