“Well, there’s my favorite disc jockey,” she said as she continued wiping down the bar. He laughed, “That’s why I keep coming back – you know how to feed my ego.” “You’re here awfully early, aren’t you?” “Yeah, wanna get a jump on licking my wounds.” “That don’t sound good.” “Maybe not, maybe it is…

If you’re lost in the wilderness, start talking about politics — someone will find you in order to start an argument.

They called him a ‘Luddite,’ because he shied away from power tools, preferring instead to maintain the older ways of the square, the handsaw, nails and hammer. For eight weeks straight, eight hours a day, he measured, he cut, he pounded – placing each nail with precise care. He’d heard their remarks, the teasing, the…

What I wouldn’t give for a day of drinking beer as an adult in the tree fort I built as a kid.

The little boy next door wanted to know why the snow was yellow. I told him that the sun is melting.

Papa John 3:16 — “Thou shalt not wear high-heels if your feet look like pizza crust.”

He’d been a purely dangerous man in earlier years, but a good woman and married life had settled him down. He raised cattle now and led packing strings through the Sierra passes for pay. She begged him to stay, but he refused, knowing the Basque herders had been cut-off from town by the consortium. And…

I thought 2019 was a Leap Year. That’s what I get for jumping to conclusions.

Once that written word goes out into the world, it stops being all mine and becomes some of yours.

I used to think that ‘tangled sheets’ happen because of how I sleep, but then I did the laundry.