by Ozer | Dec 17, 2025 | Stories
‘Splain me that! Those were the days. I did not grow up watching All in the Family on television. By the time the show first aired, my growing up was nearly done. I was already sixteen years old. A year later, I graduated from high school and left home for...
by Ozer | Aug 22, 2025 | Stories
Let’s Have Some Fun! California’s Governor is getting under the skin of our President. It isn’t a pretty image, is it? Because of Governor Newsom’s recent posts on X, done in the style of President Trump, last night, the President posted that Governor Newsom has...
by Ozer | Jan 9, 2025 | Stories
The day we lost the barn I was five years old. So was David. We both attended Mrs. Benford’s afternoon kindergarten. My mother was a nurse at Dr. Gulick’s office in town, three miles away. So, mornings my mother needed a sitter. She paid David’s mother, Mrs. Draper,...
by Ozer | May 16, 2024 | Stories
Hotspur the Hound If you lived in my village in the Valley of Lecrín, sooner or later, it would happen to you. Most folks residing in Béznar have a plot of land or two. We have four plots scattered around the outskirts of our hamlet of three hundred souls...
by Ozer | Dec 31, 2023 | Stories
History and Pearl’s Hotel A long, long, long time ago humans first began to live where I live today, the village of Béznar in the Valley of Lecrin in the province of Granada, Spain. No one is precisely sure how long ago because no one remembers that far...
by admin | Jul 13, 2023 | Stories
At the end of this story you will find some photographs of a few places in the Valley of Lecrín. I have also borrowed a graphic representation of the Valley of Lecrín created for Turismo Valle de Lecrin, an association of local business people about whom I know...
