his forsaken call’s heard sacred night covers form sound carries over sage coyote plans his day begging world join in night-guard does jus’ so silence from desert sand cattle low, stir and settle moon at crescent quarter stars high, full and bright night-guard warbles song to coyotes’ off-key call beckoning earth join in yip, yip,…

He was a bully, shoving most everyone around in the barracks and no one seemed willing to stop him, except me. However, he avoided me as much as possible after I knocked him on his butt three times during a boxing match one rainy summer Saturday. His reign of terror included picking on my friend…

“Damned sidewalk’s a helluva place to make a last stand,” Mack said to Cheese as he helped his friend to his knees. For his part Cheese wasn’t paying attention to anything Mack had to say as he was busy looking at his scraped up palms and the rip in the left elbow of his best…

It was warm for the start of September and Adam and I were on a mission. The night before we had decided to pick as many black berries as possible and to give them to Mr. and Mrs. Thompson before the elderly couple headed back home to Alhambra, California. Our idea centered on making sure…

Congress is always looking for new and sneakier ways to fill it’s pockets with our hard-earned cash. This time it has started to look at parts of former Michigan GOP Congressman Dave Camp’s failed “Tax Reform Act of 2014.” Unfortunately, this isn’t the kind of simplied tax-reform being talked about by President Trump and wanted…

Former President Obama’s shadow government is slowly moving into the daylight, as his ex-CIA chief John Brennan is openly calling for a coup to oust President Trump, should Trump fire Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Brennan appeared at the Aspen Security Forum in Vero Beach, Florida, during a panel discussion with Obama propogandist and CNN anchor Wolf…

Last week, GOP Congressman Blake Farenthold criticized his GOP colleagues in the Senate for lacking the “courage” to repeal Obamacare and pass a replacement bill. He specifically called out “female senators from the Northeast,” whom he suggested he would have challenged to a duel ― if they were men. “If it was a guy from…

What is it all about, These final years of living? Having worked till you are no longer needed, Broke and broken – No further to proceed. Am I alone in this search for meaning? If I’m not… Where are the other travelers on this road? It certainly seems that I am. Hiding perhaps, Cowering in…

There is so much about my first trip to Mexico that do not recall. Not that it was nearly four-decades ago, but because it was a booze-fill weekend where I had no one other than myself to be responsible for or to. There were five of us, and I sat in the middle, in the…

As I write this, I am in bed battling a summer head cold and losing. Earlier on Facebook I described my condition as having had wet cement shot up my nose, into my sinus cavity and behind my eyes. The description still holds. Earlier, as I stood in the shower trying to steam everything loose…