Point St. George, near Crescent City, not only has a long history, but a secret history, too. During World War II, the property housed a group of cryptographers, people who converted messages from a code to plain text, and a highly specialized direction finder radio. It was Intercept Station T, on Radio Road. Before the cryptographers moved in during…

A couple of days after Dad died my step-mom, sister and I went to Foster and Peterings Funeral Home in Muskogee for visitation. For some reason I went into the chapel, first to see him laid out in the casket and suit we’d selected the day before. It felt strange and I knew what to expect.…

At one point I used to write what I’ve always called ‘Maverick Poetry.” I learned later it is better known as ‘free-verse.’ However ‘maverick’ sound so much more manly. This afternoon, I awoke with a Kerouac quote swimming between my ears. Within ten-minutes I had ‘Rug,’ penciled out. “If you own a rug,” Jack Kerouac wrote,…

“Fuck, God!” I heard myself angrily shout, “Did you have to kick me in the nuts like this?” It had been a stressful work week. Tired from working the overnight shift, I went to the radio station, bitching about all the shit I had to get done and complaining about how I wasn’t sure if…

No Band-Aid can ever mend a broken heart or heal a wounded soul.

At first I thought it was some sort of spoof, but I decided to give it a try and it really was the correct phone number.  I dialed the ObamaCare’s national hotline at 1-800-318-2596 and it was answered by a polite sounding recording telling me I had the right number. Now, for the ironic thing…

“The man with the donkey and his daughter Bertha are my family. This is my great-great Grandfather Henry Blake from Reqoi (Requa) in Klamath California,” writes Richard England, Sr., “This picture was taken at Turup, (Tarup Creek, Klamath Glen) California at their ranch and dairy across from Blake’s landing shortly before he was murdered on…

When I saw this — I thought blood was going to squirt from my eyeballs! It is proof of what I’ve said for a long time: both the Democrats and the Republicans in Washington D.C. are part of the ‘progressive movement.’ Now, I have something else to say: neither Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,…

It might seem strange to honor an Indian chief who not only didn’t particularly like the white man and who had claimed the Paiute’s ancestral lands but also was known to attack them on occasion. However, Frank Baud, considered one of the city’s founders, had a fondness for the old chief and wanted to honor…

As I rolled over — waking from a short nap — I heard these words rolling around in my noggin, like a bad dream. They’re from ‘Queen’ and their song, “Bohemian Rhapsody.” I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouch, scaramouch – will you do the fandango Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me Gallileo, gallileo, gallileo,…