Having a pristine, manicured lawn has never been much of a priority for me, which is lucky because A) I’m lazy, and 2) the yard refuses to cooperate. And with California having outlawed lawn mowers…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
I’ve been skeptical of population estimates for a long time because it just seems there are far fewer people roaming around Planet Earth than statistics suggest. Who hasn’t run into a friend from Ukiah at…
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…
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…