Many people, including, and most especially including Program Directors, do not know how often we overnight jocks get a call from a celebrity appearing in town. It happened to me many times, and sometimes they were very memorable. One such was the Sunday morning ring-up I got from Richard Colangelo, a comedian appearing at Sammy’s…

It was midsummer, and I’d been at the radio station for about five months. It was the first station to hire me since my moving to Nevada, and I was happy to be doing the graveyard shift on the weekends. That evening, I decided to wear my Birkenstocks, an old pair of OD green jungle…

As a child, should I stand outside my front door on Redwood Drive, I could see to my right the Philips’, the Salsbury’s, most prominently, Mrs. Keatings, and further in the distance, the Myers home, though it partly blocked by a small hill. The hill, at one time, had been a simple mound of dirt…

Years ago, one evening, a reporter raced out of his house to find his car would not start. He called a cab. What was so important? A house fire on the fire/police scanner. Paying the cab driver, he got out and went to work. Fire crews made short work of the structure blaze and returned…

Not what I wanted to write about today, but not unlike the 800-pound gorilla in the middle of the room, address it I must. True, I did once tell him to “shut up, the woman is offering up a prayer,” at a Hungry Valley Reservation Numaga Pow Pow, before Steve Sisolak became Governor, but I’d…

Through the middle of Reno, I drove. There were few people on the sidewalks, but soon that would change as it was five or six days ahead of New Year’s Eve. From the neon of downtown to the outskirts of town, I drove in circles, chasing my tracks and feeling lost. My spirits lifted as…

Washoe County commissioners postponed an election proposal by Republican board member Jeanne Herman before the scheduled commission meeting on Tuesday, February 22. Commissioner Jeanne Herman proposed a resolution bringing changes to the county’s election system. The proposed changes included a shift to almost exclusively using paper ballots and a measure to ensure the presence of…

We flew from Wyoming, through Colorado, to Arizona. After a short layover, we boarded the C-130 and returned to the air, crossing over Nevada, a portion of California, through Oregon, and finally into Wahington. It had been a long day. My friend, Deanna Hurless, stationed at the same Wyoming base, and her family dropped me…

With the winter season comes mice, and with mice, mouse hunting, as I like to call it. It is not a sport, but rather a necessity, because if not done, we’d find ourselves overrun with them. While serving in the U.S. Air Force, I learned all I ever wanted about ‘vector control,’ which was as…

We were not going to write for ourselves today, but stick only to our employer’s need, but then we heard our wife talking to her sister. Two nights ago, about dinner time, a knock came on our front door. Nearly dark, I looked through the peephole and saw the top of our neighbor boy’s, Chase,…