Jeff Hammer

Even though Tilly was my first cousin, she was more my mother’s age. One must understand that in the early part of the twentieth...

From the time I can remember until February of 1972, when he was permanently injured in a work-related accident, my dad worked construction. Before...

In these columns, I have generally tried to avoid politics, but this column will be an exception, so if you are averse to that...

Memory experts tell us what we already know. As we age, we remember certain aspects of an event, but the details begin to fade...

I’m not sure sometimes how my wife comes up with these ideas, but I thank my lucky stars that she does. It's probably because...

The other morning, October 9th to be exact, in the gray light of predawn, I found myself parked in a wide spot along the...

Sometime in the spring of 1984, my girlfriend at the time who is now my wife of 40 years, invited me to a celebration...

For at least ten years, I’ve been seeing a primary care provider (PCP) every year at about the same time each summer, generally in...

March 28, 2023 was the worst day of Fred Hurlock’s life. On that day, Dianne Perez, his wife of thirty-six years, died unexpectedly of...

In these columns, I usually try to write about positive topics as much as possible, and I think I’ve been fairly successful in doing...

Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere according to the International Monetary Fund. Over 70% of its people live in...

Lately, I’ve been thinking a little about motivation. Not being a person who enjoys performing a lot of research, I’m probably the last person...

One of the perks of becoming older is that you get to be on a first name basis with some of your doctors. I...

One of the great aspects of growing up and living in Lander has always been the lack of wind. Of course, that is a...

Just this past Sunday, which would be Mother’s Day by my calendar, my wife and I decided to lace up the not so old...

Over the past three decades, I’ve watched a lot of female sporting events, starting with my daughters’ participation in various dance classes when they...

I’ve been a fan of various competitive sports at designated levels for decades; but that interest has ebbed and flowed throughout my adult life....

Even though I retired nearly four years ago, I still maintain slight connections to the youth of our community. Each month, I work a...

Countless times, throughout my lifetime of reading, I have encountered sentences that have included the term “formative years.” I’ve always assumed those were the...

I wrote my last column for County 10 in May of this year with the explanation to Amanda Fehring, my go-to person for this...