Waking to the roar of fire whirling around our home, the ringing from a landline telephone at 1:30 a.m. saved our lives. Our mobile devices depended upon our in-house Wi-Fi to receive calls. No power, no cell reception.
Posts published in December 2017
By the time Bruce and I finished getting the grain beds set up on the trucks it was ten to six and we were going to have to hurry to wash up before supper.
The Board of Supervisors breezed through the Tuesday December 5 consent calendar auto-approving the generous auto allowance for a couple of Health and Human Service Director Ann Molgaard’s female management buddies and the two extra…
It got pretty exciting at the Courthouse last Thursday evening. Wait, strike that! Exciting is too puny a term for the breathtaking exhilaration whistling through the ancient halls of justice. The sense of anticipation was…
It has been almost a year now since the legalization of rec(reational) pot and people are still getting busted for it — so what’s up with that? It is a question I get asked a…
There are things my mind does, in its relentless pursuit of inefficiency and procrastination, shouldn't happen to a dog, but one thing it's good for is it slows down and stays steady in the middle…
A week before Thanksgiving at the Fort Walton Florida airport I was met by my sister-in-law Robin, a retired public health nurse who now sits on the board of a local homeless organization. The Crestview…
It's Thanksgiving as I write this — the holidays will inexorably assert themselves despite our (my) best efforts to ignore them, every year like clockwork (or calendarwork, really) — and it occurs to me that…
Alabama Upset;
TJ Nelson;
Bill Koehler;
Navarro Rising;
Williams Slur;
Windy Breed;
Class K;
Abstractions;
Witt Elves;
Little Dog;
Serial Liar;
Garbage Rates;
Emerald Address;
Underinsured;
Toy Drive;
Yesterday's Catch;
Night Missiles;
Nazi Subs;
Accordians;
Dance Project;
Warlock Hunt;
Thesaureans;
Even Richard Nixon Has Got Soul;
Koch Plutocracy;
Six Years;
Ed Lee