I’ve been in North Carolina for a year and figured when I learned how to spell “Chattanooga” I’d be enough of an expert to lecture locals on how to improve things for me. Being from…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
As a kid I delivered newspapers (Cleveland News, Cleveland Press) and when I got older I worked 80-hour weeks in a ketchup factory. I spent college summers at a small shop that fabricated big ticket…
I’ve always thought the fastest way to make a bunch of money is to steal a U.S. Mint printing press and start running off 20s in the garage. Not so sure anymore. A car wash…
We returned to Ukiah for a limited time but long enough for me to fret over my missing Swallowtail butterflies. For the past 20 uninterrupted summers wife Trophy and I have been quietly thrilled at…
My reputation as a brooding intellectual blossomed in junior high then flowered in high school. It was a period in my life when I hauled around thick books on serious topics by profound authors for…
Needing assurance it was still in business, I pushed the Forest Club door open, took a stool and called for a cold can of Coors. Good choice, this, I told myself. Last time here I…
I remember the county jail when it was on the top floor of the courthouse, and I was on hand to watch the then-new jail installed out on Low Gap Road. Now, surprise surprise, our…