What I love(d) about living in the big city is the wealth of opportunity. I'm not talking about the potential for cultural enrichment or the…
Posts published by “Flynn Washburne”
There’s nothing funny about suicide, unfortunately; one cannot employ humor to mitigate the horror, not and remain within the bounds of humanity and good taste.…
I'm sitting here looking at the February 11 issue of the AVA and wondering what I should make of the fact of my work being…
Ever since I first discovered meth in 1981 — no, that's not right. I believe I should correctly say that since Meth, out on its…
There are scourges, and then there are scourges. Dutch elm disease, the Golden Horde, AIDS, potato blight, Spanish flu, Japanese beetles, Nazism, Maroon 5, war,…
In 2009, you may recall the nation underwent a severe economic downturn -- a consequence, I gather, of Jesus expressing his displeasure at the American…
I've always been a sucker for music. I don't mean that I love it, although I do; I mean I'm susceptible in the extreme to…
When I am not in a condition of employment — and this is a rarer state than you might imagine, given the depth, breadth and…
The thing I look most forward to reading each week when I receive my Advertiser — well, most weeks — okay, on the semi-rare occasions…