• Beyond Talking Turkey

    Speaking Crow came easy. He’d been doing it since a fledgling. And early on, he taught himself how to talk Turkey. Now he wants to learn the language of the Raven. He loves the idea of the challenge – keeping his neuropath-ways sharp. “Besides,” Corvus caw-cawed loudly, “It’ll throw those humans, who study birds, ornithologists,…

  • Oh, great — more rain and here I was afraid I wouldn’t get to use my inflatable ark.

  • If all the things the media accuse President Trump of were true, he’d damn near qualify to be a Democrat.

  • Of Intrinsic Value

      It stood against time for a century, But then, got in progresses way. Before the first board razed, Hereford cattle shipped to market. Then – they came at noon — Bulldozers tearing down the ancient barn. Soon grassy field’s plowed under, Gone, the sight of a gloried past. Men of profit claimed it had…

  • I can’t afford a vacation, so I’m simply gonna drink until I don’t know where I am.

  • The difference between law and justice is simple: the family dog bites a human and gets euthanized, but a police dog does the same and gets rewarded.

  • Shoe-box Ford

    After days of walking, creating nighttime shelter out of my now-worn out plastic tarp, I was happy to see an old abandoned car in the raven to my right. The rain seemed to be never-ending, with lightning clawing across the sky and thunder booming both day and night. Once I realize that the windows were…

  • Eye drops are technically ‘blinker fluid.’

  • If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been distracted — I want a taco.

  • The Overworked Mind

    It’s the night-time that’s the worst. His mind refusing to take a rest as it works to develop stories worth telling. Even when he sleeps those few hours, his mind machinates, imagining, thinking what word should come next, how the story should flow and end. Then he wonders why he’s always so damned fatigued, mind and…