This is from my childhood friend, Debbie Hoyle, who says she’s had it stored in a box for years. Her mother, Mary Wolcott wrote and published the poem in the ‘Simpson Redwood Cone,’ in March 1956. It is about the December 21, 1955 flood that rampaged through the township of Klamath, California.

There are a number of memories of both the old and new A. Brizard Company, Inc., in Requa and Klamath. For me it was the large red metal building at the end of Redwood Drive that doubled as home for the U.S. Post Office, run by Klamath Post Master Earl Morgan. In 1913, A. Brizard,…

1980 My brother had always been destined for the footlights of the theatre’s stage and I, only to serve my fellow-man. As I was walking down my required path, I eyed that young fellow ambling towards me — decked out in fancy clothes, but staring at his feet. As he approached me, he looked up…

While most are happy with lower gas prices,  they will eventually cause the former Soviet Union’s economy to crash, leading to a world-wide depression, then war. A year ago, Russia’s economy was growing by about one-and-a-half percent and President Vladimir Putin was preparing to host the Sochi Winter Olympics. A year later, the ruble has lost nearly 50-percent…

It was on September 23, 2010, when House Speaker John Boehner made a campaign promise, saying that the GOP would post all bills online for “at least three days” before voting on them. However, H.R. 83 passed only 49 hours and 20 minutes after it first appeared online. Now the incoming Republican majorities in both the…

It appears that I jus’ don’t have the Christmas spirit yet as I struggle to work on a haiku for the cards I have yet to send. Writing is such a painful process sometimes. Look at the beautiful sky Mankind is the disaster What a long, old year Sheesh!

Nevada is getting its first national monument, but it is nothing to write home about. H.R 2015 was among several natural resource measures Congress passed as it battled over whether to or not to fund the federal government through October 2015. Not only would the ‘Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds…

This is a story from the U.S. which has remained largely ignored by our national news media because it doesn’t come with ‘live-action’ video, pictures or sound: “A manhunt is still underway for a man accused of going on a shooting spree early Monday killing six family members, including his ex-wife, and wounding a teen…

NBC Nightly News remains the only national broadcast to completely have ignored ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber mocking the “stupidity” of voters. Instead of airing what Gruber said, they have done their best to obfuscate the story with ‘fluff.’ NBC Nightly News featured a full report during their November 13 cast, on “Guinness World Records Day,” and NBC morning show…

While waiting in a doctor’s office, a boy of about four-years-old kept looking my way. Every time I caught his eye, he’d duck down behind the row of chairs. After a few minutes he asked his mother in a rather loud whisper “Is that man Santa?” The mother looked at me and my bushy, white beard…