The email to all employees seemed so darn happy: “Our newly-remodeled snack-room is now open! Stop by on your break!” So far so good. And…
Posts published by “Doug Holland”
It was the summer of 1977. I was fresh out of high school, living on my own, generally disinterested in the church but not yet…
My dad's motto was, "If you're going to do something, do it right." He had a thousand inspirational clichés, but that was the one that…
I was about twelve years old when Harold and Maude came out, in 1971. At that age I only went to the movies if my…
A youngish white guy comes into the diner. He's clean-cut and wearing a suit and tie, and he sits a few stools away from an…
I've known a lot of nuts in my life. What's the polite term? "Mentally ill"? "Emotionally disturbed"? "Has issues"? Nah, nuts. That's the catch-all word for…
Once a week I treat myself to breakfast at a diner. It used to be breakfast with my wife, but she died, damn it, so…
In the summer of 1992, a gun dealer named David Koresh sent a message to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). He asked…