Whistling – someone was whistling and as far as I knew – I was the only person in the radio station. I set my coffee down and continued from the newsroom down the long hallway towards the front office. Whoever was whistling stayed ahead of me – as if they knew what direction I’d be…

It’s always tough news to hear when a friend’s child is injured in combat. Ron Worrel’s 22-year-old son Travis is Combat Medic with the 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, 1-41 Infantry Battalion, Fort Bliss, Texas. Ron reports Travis was severely injured when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded next to him during a dismounted patrol in a village, near Kabul, Afghanistan. Travis…

I decided to do what I’m not really supposed to do anymore – I went for a short jog. Today, as expected, I’m stoved up and in so much pain. No — I’m not complaining – I’m jus’ sharing with you. Time and again I dream of running through the Redwood’s behind my childhood home…

As the tallest building in Del Norte County, the 5-story Surf Hotel towers at corner of Front and H Streets across from Beachfront Park. Although the foyer suffered extensive damage from the tsunami of 1964, the Surf was one of the few buildings in downtown Crescent City to structurally survive. But it remained empty until…

It was a laughable moment – a woman I know exclaimed, “Let Tom pay for it, he’s in radio and famous. He make’s lotsa money.” Laughable because anyone who has ever been in radio broadcasting, whether it’s behind the microphone, sales, engineering, support or management, knows making LOTSA money is something that happens few and…

Crap! I’m sitting here looking at all the stuff I’ve managed to accrue and I don’t like what I’m seeing. What happened to my life-time motto, “Keep it simple?” I need to back a dump truck up to the house to get rid of most of this junk.  I’m very disappointed in me. Perhaps I…

Sometimes I forget how politically divided people can be. When I do forget – I tend to open my mouth and insert my foot – even when it comes to people I think of as friends. At issue is a painting of Che Guevara that’s on display at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Seems 71-year-old Jose Paz, a…

Russian “Airborne Assault Forces” will be arriving in Colorado this May for joint terror-war exercises with U.S. soldiers, according to U.S. officials and Russian military personnel cited in media reports. The Kremlin’s Defense Ministry and the U.S. Department of Defense both said it would be the first time in history that American and Russian airborne…

Early on the morning of April 3, 1962, workers were welding in the basement of Reno’s Golden Hotel. The oxyacetylene tank exploded, erupting into flame. The workers tried in vain to put it out, but before they could,  it was burning upward to the ground floor. New car, parked as a jackpot prize, caught fire and soon the…

Bipolar being what it is makes today a bad time to suddenly find myself cycling down. The last week I’ve been a riding a wave of ‘high,’ that’s been incredible — but now comes the inevitable crash. Dammit!!! My sudden onset of depression is tempered by the fact I completed the cover art for my…