“Hon, can you come here and look at this thing on my hip?” he asked. His wife walked over, bent down, and looked where her husband’s finger was pointing. “It looks like a sliver or maybe a real thick hair,” she announced before asking, “Want me to get the tweezers and pull it?” “Please,” he…

The discovery of gold in Gold Canyon by Abner Blackburn, a member of the Mormon Battalion in 1849, sparked a rush of miners seeking their fortunes in the Sierra Nevada region. However, the miners did not establish permanent settlements and instead moved back and forth across the mountains in search of “pay dirt.” As early…

It had begun to snow pretty hard when I stepped inside the Virginia City Visitor Center to drop off newspapers and chat with Liza McIlwee. She is into reenacting and works behind the old bar from the Crystal Palace, now the center’s front desk. “I was sitting on a bench in front of the Tahoe…

Women were created because sheep can’t cook and men because a vibrator can’t mow the lawn.

God created man and woman. Social justice warriors created all others.

Counting to ten only makes it premeditated.

Dogs float in water because they are good buoys.

It has been a long time since I have written a full political commentary. I stopped before the Obama Administration departed the White House because of the online anger received by both the right and left. If I said anything about Obama, Trump, or Biden, I found myself blasted with hate because the lens of…

It was one of the busier campgrounds I discovered a little too late, but I decided to set up my tent and stay the night anyway. That left me most of the day to hike the trails around Burney Falls. In the late afternoon, I returned to #37, my campsite, to find I had neighbors…

Having gotten a late start, I made it to Lahontan Reservoir as the sun was hanging above the west mountains by more than an inch. If I hurried, I would have enough time to set up my camp tent and gather loose wood for a fire. Once my tent was ready, I returned to my…