Melancholia hangs from me, slow and sticky like the sap from a tree. It is not quick, and I am less swift because it catches me, holding me fast, making me struggle to loosen its devastating grip. Tonight, it has me encased, mummified and immovable. I feel myself breathing, my heart beating, but to feel…

It was a song that started it. “Opal,” by Dave Stamey, and released in 1999. After hearing the song several times over the years, it was in 2010 that I began the hunt to find the couple that was the subject of the song. It would take me nearly four years. “Opal lives in Opal…

My idea of a Super Bowl is a self-cleaning toilet.

One week after being hired, she arrived on set. Carrie Fisher’s personality and charisma drew people to her, including me. It was the same day I learned I was to do a stunt with her because her double was busy getting her knee looked at in the emergency room of Seaside Hospital. Not only was…

The fuckers thought that because I was trying to avoid a fight, I was a coward, that my truck was old and beat up, that it wouldn’t run over rough country. They were wrong on both counts. It began at the Silver City Post Office with the seven Christian motorcycle gang members roaring up on…

Gen. Mark Milley’s last name is really Mi Lee.

The first time his truck’s odometer, the one registering the distance traveled between fuelings, read 187.3 miles. That was also the first time he heard the vehicle call to him. “Kill three pedophiles,” it silently burned into his mind over and over. The command became engrained in his brain, and he knew he had to…

Shooting down the Chinese balloon that has been floating over the U.S. is the first thing Biden has done to battle inflation.

She lay on her back, able only to turn her head slightly and her eyes barely further. Sleep paralysis, something she had only read about but had never experienced till now. Her inability to move would have remained unknown to her had it not been for the crushing weight on her chest that made breathing…

“So, what is it that ails me?” he asked the doctor nervously. “It appears that your immune system has been compromised,” the doctor answered. “What does that mean?” It means your immune system is so weak that it cannot fight off diseases.” “Am I going to die, then?” “Not unless you get a cold or…