a tiny roof, however hard it tries, will always be overhead. are you upset by how noisy it is? does it tear you apart to see the tiny roof so warped?

many people walk antiquated wood boardwalks because of the slope

past the midday heat the tiny black crickets cry under old tin roof

Update on my arm — upper left radial and lower humorous adjacent to the elbow. Damn, it hurts! Since I cannot type with one hand, I thought it would be okay to remove my sling and the forearm supported by my desk and set to work banging out four-thousand words in various news stories. It…

Recently, I encountered a mountain lion as I was leaving the print shop one late night. Then the fed’s trapped one near Genoa, some 30 miles southwest of Virginia City. While we don’t know if it is that cat, we did do some speculating that it could be. A news story about the capture and…

Yes, Friggatriskaidekaphobia is real. For me, the date and day usually hold good things. The last Friggatriskaideka was no exception, but my good fortune did not come to me in the usual way. While delivering newspapers, it is often hard to find a parking spot. Visitors and business owners tend to take up the available…

Weeks back, I attended church with my son and daughter-in-law. It was a ‘Share Your Testimony’ Sunday, and being moved by the Holy Spirit, I did. Unbeknownst to me, the entire service was video recorded for later Internet streaming. Anyway, I expressed how God talks to me like a drill sergeant would a Marine recruit,…

My Cousin Elmo says, “They call it May because is may be be sunny, it may snow, it may be 20 degrees or it may be 90.”

While I survived changing a tire without hurting my back, I did manage to trip over our front porch steps with both feet and fall. Fortunately, I did not break the arm I extended during the tumble. And I’m unashamed to say that I lay on the cement for a few minutes than needed, enjoying…

It is nice when I can find some humor in a situation I don’t particularly like. Namely, I had to help my daughter-in-law change a flat tire on her already wrecked car. And as usual, it did not go smoothly for me. First, I have to take care not to hurt my already fragile back…