A few of my favorite restaurants in Fresno, California… I live in an area with some very, very good, but few is any really great restaurants. In this article, I’ll write about mainly independently owned restaurants instead of the franchise and /or chain restaurants. I am going to start out with a pet peeve – ...
In 1936, Fred Conwill started a furniture store not quite like any other. Instead of shipping a couch that was the wrong color or fabric back to the plant (often on the East Coast), Conwill’s store would take the couch and find an eager buyer, happy to have quality furniture at a bargain. That was ...
While Vacaville, CA has no shortage of major pizza chain restaurants such as Domino’s Pizza and Little Caesar’s Pizza, I have found that the best local pizza in Vacaville comes from Pietro’s No. 1 on Cernon Street near downtown. There are actually two Pietro’s restaurants barely a mile apart on Merchant Street in Vacaville, Pietro’s ...
Sometimes it seems that the passage of time has passed by slowly, like the grains of sand dropping from the top of an hour glass to the bottom. As each grain drops representing the passing moments of our lives, seconds, hours, days, months and years since my son Tom’s murder I suddenly am forced to ...
Have the malls finally gone mad for business? On the Friday after Thanksgiving shoppers can get an extra early start on Christmas Holiday bargain shopping. How early? How about 12:01 AM? Midnight Madness will appeal to shoppers who are either night owls or early birds, Those who don’t get excited about rising in the middle ...
