Jeff Hammer

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...

In the fall of 1989, my wife, two-year-old daughter, and I moved to Winnemucca, Nevada where Gayla and I secured teaching contracts in first...

Finally, this past weekend, my wife and I were able to leave town for a couple of days. As she works during the week,...

The destination escapes me now some fifty or so years later, but as my dad and I stepped out of our house on Smith...

As we were going through security on a recent Saturday morning at an ungodly early hour, the TSA guy at the Riverton airport asked...

I have a love/hate relationship with this time of year, and based on passing conversations I’ve had with my neighbors and others, I don't...

Savi Sharma is an Indian (from India) novelist. The title of one of her novels is Everyone Has a Story. In the book she...

When I want and need some fresh air, I usually, depending on the season and the weather, choose one of two activities: I either...

For whatever reason, as I sat down today to write this column, writer’s block seemed to cast its gloomy shadow down over me like...

The other day on the radio, I heard a line from Michael Scott, who was Steve Carell’s character on the television series “The Office,”...

I remember when not every college football team with an even record or better over the course of a fall season went to a...

It’s nice to have significant snow on the ground this early in the winter for a variety of reasons. The past several years have...

What’s in a name? Well, letters, of course…and words; but for me, the letters and words that make up names connotate memories.  When we consider...

Leaving Wyoming by way of commercial air travel is not easy, especially if one is interested in playing in and around salt water. It's...

Some things are meant to be forever. For example, a father’s love is a forever thing. However, some aspects of our lives were never...

During spring break in the year 1989, when other married couples were off visiting relatives or lounging on a beach in a warmer climate...

Even though these columns are labeled “opinion,” much more often than not they are really just observations, both young and old; meaning instances I...