Immigrants have been coming to California for centuries, enduring journeys of thousands of miles by walking months or years through dangers and deprivations you and I can scarcely comprehend. “Americans” were living in a land…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
The art of conversation, or at least practice, is as dead and gone as your grandmother’s DeSoto sedan. This didn’t happen last week nor last decade but it makes no difference. We no longer sit…
Live! Laugh! Love! has been the constellation navigation Big Dipper guide to my carefree journey through life. Nothing but severe diarrhea touches me so deeply as the simple, affirming message of “Live! Laugh! Love!” Together…
If you think you have the best dog in the world you probably do. Here’s the deal: Everyone’s dog, including yours, is the best dog in the whole wide world. People love their cocker spaniels…
Consider “Over the Rainbow.” Light, fragile, wistful, brimming with yearning and hope, young Dorothy sings about what she knows: Birds, trees, lemon drops and rainbows. Listeners know the same from our own fragmented memories. Judy…
Quit drinking the other day, but knowing me, it won’t be long before I hit the bottle again. It’s my pattern. That means I’ll soon be drinking again. Hallelujah. I started in college and have…
One of the things Mendocino County taught me was the value of being a conscience-free liar when useful and/or profitable. People have been coming to Mendotopia for years and decades, and a fair percentage of…