No wonder I’m so screwed up. My ancestory includes Vikings and Leprechauns.

Throughout this morning I’ve been trying to recall ‘Murphy’s Laws for the Hospital Corpsman,’ but it may have been to long ago or I have filled my brain cavity with too many other things. Besides, I got hung up on law #50: “The good doc considers the risk before running to a casualty. The great…

Beyond death itself, which I’ll have no earthly knowledge of entering into from this life, my greatest fear is being told, “Go away from me for I never knew you.” This comes from my ever-dominate feeling of being wholly unworthy of redemption and forgiveness. Therein is where my horrors lay. It’s that vast, never ending,…

If you boil a funny bone, it becomes a laughing stalk. Now that’s humerus!

Rarely is the photographer ever photographed.

“…the daemon-sultan Azathoth gnaws hungrily in chaos amid pounding and piping and the hellish dancing of the Other Gods, blind, voiceless, tenebrous, and mindless…”  — The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H. P. Lovecraft, January 1927 “Mind if I sit here?” the very old man asked as he pulled the chair out from the table. I…

The silent woman has given up; the quiet woman, she explodes.

Doug Ames, 61, was born on July 8, 1958 and unfortunately passed away on August 12, 2019 following a nearly four-year long battle with cancer. He grew up in Crescent City, California, but was living in Dolan Springs, Arizona. A 1976 graduate of Del Norte High, he was in Reno, Nevada in March 2016. We…

Tom Cassidy was born in Crescent City, California on April 9, 1961 and passed away from congestive heart failure on August 7, 2019 at the age of 58. He leaves behind his wife Michelle, whom he married on June 21, 1986. We were teammates, both sprinters, running track and field at Del Norte High School,…

“When I got here, I seen that marquee out there with my name in lights on it. My name’s never been up in lights before,” he said in his distinctive Southern-drawl, “But I’ll get over it and sing some for ya, which is why you’re all here tonight.” His enthusiasm was authentic, infectious and the…