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Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”

World To End If Workers Strike

Mendocino County employees have authorized a strike, and if you are weeping and worrying at their plight, or if you’ve been making sandwiches for unemployed…

Graffiti, Ukiah’s Growth Industry

One of the biggest mistakes Ukiah makes, and has been making for decades, is allowing graffiti to deface streets and buildings.  It’s as if our…

’Nuthin’s Happenin’ Here’

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…

Conversation On An Airplane

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…

Live! Laugh! Love!

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…

Your Dog’s Best, Mine’s Better

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…

Somewhere, Over The Faded Rainbow

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.…

‘Think I’ll Quit Having Tumors’

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…

Win Friends, Influence People

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…

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