My favorite job
By the title of this article, you may think I will write about my job at the Madera Tribune. I do love my job working in this wonderful...
Nancy Simpson
Madera is my kind of place
I moved to Madera in 1991, when the population was about 41,000. It has grown quite a lot since that year. My husband and I have been...
Nancy Simpson
My first job
The summer after I graduated from high school, and before I began college, I worked in a men's retail clothing store in downtown Atlanta....
Nancy Simpson


Valentine’s Day is for everyone
zingyyellow, Wikimedia Commons You don’t need a holiday to enjoy a slice of homemade cheesecake. If you judge by all the television...
Cathie Campbell
The best museum
If you have never seen the Madera County Museum, which is in the old Madera Courthouse, you have really missed out on something...
Nancy Simpson


Thanks, Mr. City Manager
Courtesy of Arnoldo Rodriguez This Sixth Street sign on Gateway Drive was corrected after a typo was discovered by Nancy Simpson, and...
Nancy Simpson


Old cook book recipes
Courtesy of stu_spivac Churros, coated with cinnamon and sugar, never go out of style. At one time, I had so many cookbooks I had to...
Cathie Campbell
Another earworm story
I believe that I am very susceptible to earworms. I know I have written before about the songs that creep in and attach themselves to our...
Nancy Simpson