My friend H.H.R. Gorman posted an entry to her blog, ‘5 Tests You Should Put Your Story (or Characters) Through,’ that has knocked the writing socks off my feet, especially when it comes to the readability. Much of my work it seems, is hard to read and comes out at the eleventh and twelfth grade…

Reverend Greene was on fire with the word of God that Sunday morning. He preached hell-fire, brimstone, equating current happenings on Earth with the Book of Revelation. “I was reading the newspaper last Tuesday morning,” he thundered, “And I saw where large earthquakes are striking the outer rim of the Pacific Ocean. They call this…

This subject got me booted from FB for three-days after I defended myself from pretty mean attack, including the wish that I ‘would die…,’ so needless to say, I have heard it all. Guess my media credentials are not as good as the other media credentials, you know the ones that toe-the-line and fall in…

President Trump is a liar. He had help from the Russian’s in order to defeat Hillary Clinton. Dominion Voting machines are secure and therefore President-elect Joe Biden won the recent election with 80-million votes. Trump is simply a sore loser. COVID-19 did not originate in China. It was a disease developed by one of the…

The truth in news reporting has been displaced by facts and citation. Rarely, is it that someone can report on something without it being called ‘opinion’ or a ‘lie,’ even when the traffic accident was personally witnessed and the reporter tangentially involved.

This year 2020, Georgio was prepared to fly to unexplored lands that only his mind could imagine. He had done everything possible to make the long tethers as secure as possible and their ends as fragrant to the Monarch’s as he could. Once their northward migration began, he hurried to his tightly-woven basket and waited…

My Cousin Elmo says, “It’s time to put whiskey in my coffee, because it’s gotta be Ireland somewhere.”

My wife walks somewhere between 3 and five miles each day. She’s developed three or four routes through our neighborhood that she follows depending on the length of her desired walk. One of these routes takes her by a home that has a beautiful garden in the spring and summer months. By fall and into…

A life-long friend of mine lives on Yerington. She and I went to grade school together at Margaret Keating in Klamath. She moved to Nevada when we were in eighth grade and we reconnected in 1987 after she heard me on KIIQ (KICK,) a local country music station in Reno. We stay in touch with…