She was skilled with a scythe. I sat on the side of the dirt and gravel road, watching her With each sweep of the blade, she laid low another quarter sheave of wheat. Stopping momentarily, she mopped the glistening moisture from her brow. She smiled at me. I smiled back. She picked something from the…

We gathered on the beach, south of Crescent City. It was 1969 and as a Cub Scout I was one of the few to attend. It’s where Kitty Harriman, a Redwood Empire Council leader, and native Tolowa, taught us how to make acorn cakes. She had with her a large burlap sack filled with shelled…

It was January 1986, and Doug Tracht, better known as ‘The Greaseman,’ while working at  WWDC-FM in Washington, D.C., created an uproar by telling an on-air joke regarding the new federal holiday, Martin Luther King Day. “Why don’t we shoot four more and get the whole week off?” Tracht said, “Come on, now, you know…

Herman Krakatoa is a profuse bleeder. An massive eruption every minute. He leaves puddles of sticky redness everywhere. Everyone thinks him disgusting. Herman bleeds so much he fills up city buses. He bleeds all over the office. He even bleeds on dogs, chicken and children. Herman likes to go swimming. The ocean is his playground.…

the sky is dirty gray wind breezing a winter cold birds are hiding

A friend of mine lives in a house that she technically no longer owns. A squatter. She worked for me at one time and when I left that job, we lost contact. Since then she worked several jobs and after being fired one final time, she’s never found another. To be honest, I think she…

Since paying to add ‘followers,’ is out of the question, would adding a cute cat picture to every post, even if the post has nothing to do with felines, increase readership?  Asking for a friend.

My friend is from Southampton, England. She’s against Great Britain leaving the European Union and though she’s tried to explain her position on this to me, I’m still lost as I jus’ don’t know enough about UK politics. She recently asked me where I stood on the subject and I answered, “It doesn’t matter much…

It began when Tom had a ‘run in’ with a ‘Southern-Born’ program director, who wanted a box for listeners to place their names in for an on-air give away that evening. Tom politely explained that it couldn’t be done because a corporate rule demanding a two week period of on-air announcements prior to any giveaway.…

He walked Katy every day. As for the shepherd dog, she tugged at her leash, nose to the pavement, head swaying back and forth, tail up, wagging happily. She had her favorite spot, an old tree at the edge of a nearby abandoned cemetery that she liked to snuffle. One of its thick roots had…