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My Navy Aviators Photo Series
It’s not often I present photographs like these U.S. Naval Aviators doing their magic for a publicity shoot… Fair winds and following seas…
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Last night as I walked my dog, I looked up into the heavens, admired the stars, pondered the creation of the universe and I wondered to myself: what are the lyrics to ‘Blinded By The Light?’
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Hidden Along the Superhighway
Wow wee! A computer crash and a treasure trove of written material hidden in the folds of the Internet, and that I thought was lost forever. It’s like having a whole bunch of new stories to post. Some are actually journal-type entries from 2008 while others are poems that I jotted down in 2001 and…
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COVID Deaths Rise in Lyon County
Carson City Health and Human Services (CCHHS) is reporting four additional deaths due to COVID-19 in the Quad-County Region. Two of the individuals were Lyon County residents and two were Carson City residents. Currently there are 751 cases in Lyon County with 62 active cases. Of the 751 cases, 673 people have recovered, however 16…
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A Quickie of Three Things
They came for me at 3:15 a.m. once again. I don’t know who ‘they’ are but its always about the same time that I wake up in the morning and then can’t get back to sleep. This time ‘they’ came with a little more mischief in their hearts (if they have one or any.) Precisely…
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Smoked Turkey Dinner
go smoke a turkey off behind the old wooden shed tryptophan stoner
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Winged Victor
winter time fly trapped in window sill final survivor
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Mary Greger, 1937-2020
How many times did Mary Greger run me out of the library? There’s no way to tell. Mary is one of the many people that made high school, a place I thought of more as torture, a good experience. And I think she knew my dislike for school. She was the head librarian at Del…
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Doris Whalen, 1926-2020
Age doesn’t matter, not even at 94 years, it’s still hard to lose a person who has had any kind of influence on your life. That’s the way I feel about the loss of one of my most important high school English teacher, Doris Whalen. This was a woman who didn’t pull punches. She said…
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My Cousin Elmo says, “Figures rarely lie, but liars always figure.”