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…
Absent much of the past couple years, I too late realized I’d never taken full advantage of employment opportunities while in Mendocino County. The mistake was trying to fit my squaresville employment existence into the…
When we saw polar bears skateboarding down the big hill on North Dora Street we knew we were back in time for another glorious spring in Ukiah. So nice to see the snow and holiday…