Fredrik Backman’s storytelling borders on poetry, and his newest novel “My Friends” is no exception. My friends is actually a ...

New Iberia - New Iberia - Although the timeframe was sooner than those who loved him would have hoped, Robert "Woody" Woodburn achieved his highest goal on October 18, 2019 when he drew his final ...

VENTURA, Calif.-Ventura County Star columnist Woody Woodburn credits his daughter Dallas for encouraging him to write his first novel. She is a writer, too. That prompted Timbre books in Ventura to ...

Upon meeting a married couple, from newlyweds to having celebrated their diamond anniversary, I love to ask how they met. Blind date or meet cute or online app match, they always light up in the ...

What a difference a day makes. More accurately, what a difference a friend can make on a day. Such it was on recent back-to-back afternoons that for me were as polar as sunshine and flooding rain, ...

Drop off new balls at Sanbell (formerly Jensen Design & Survey) at 1672 Donlon St., Ventura CA 93003 (weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 ...

A recent note, out of the blue, from a key mentor in my life whose praise can still put birdsong in my heart and helium in my stride, inspired me to reshare this column (with the time frame revised) ...

Words fall shy, and greatly so, in expressing my gratitude to one and all who participated in this year’s “Woody’s Holiday Ball Drive.” The best I can come up with is this: whether you gave one ball, ...

When asked to write a brief essay on the topic “A Letter Of Advice To My 21-Year-Old Self,” that was my answer in a nutshell: Chase butterflies. As we toe the starting line for a new lap around the ...

A century and change ago, Joyce Kilmer penned “Trees” with one of the most widely familiar opening couplets in America poetry: I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree. The other ...

“What really knocks me out,” Holden Caulfield says in “The Catcher in the Rye,” “is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and ...

A big-time New York City sportswriter once said, long ago, that his best pieces were when he quoted at length from columns by press-box legend Red Smith. Chuck Thomas, my esteemed predecessor in this ...