Sincerely, and I mean this with all my heart, for those looking forward to the Rapture, a new body and a clean soul, I’m sorry it didn’t happen for you. However, end-of-the-world prognostication is neither an art nor a science. The First Commandment reads:  “And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord…

Peter Adair died in 1996, five years after releasing his independent documentary, “Absolutely Positive.” It is a film about the lives of eleven people and their experiences living with AIDS. For some reason I was watching the local PBS station when it came on. As I sat on the couch of our little apartment living room, watching…

It started out as a project for our scouting den in order to earn a merit badge. But by the time it was over — it was so much more — that it got my ass kicked. There was a particular family which lived in the Glen. Their home had no electricity, or phone service…

Working as an order-taker for a company has never been my idea of fun employment. However, this is exactly what I found myself doing shortly after the radio station I was working for sold to another company. As a general rule, or at least every time I’ve been employed at a station that has sold,…

The small sailing boat’s bow raised high into the air, hanging silent against the gray sky, before dropping into the bottom of the swell. The fall caused the timber to give a loud crack as if the vessel were coming apart plank by plank. Greg shouted at me, “Grab tight!” As quick as he shouted,…

If you believe what a small group of non-denominational Christians are preaching, the rapture is coming this Saturday. If you don’t — you probably fall in those who think the prediction is nothing more than a clever advertising campaign designed to get people to listen to a certain radio program. For those who believe the prediction,…

It was a story told to me more than once and which I believed for years. That is until I started digging around for some history on the person I consider to be one of the most important person with my last name. Dad claimed William Orlando Darby was a second cousin or something along…

“Harriet A. Darby wife of Peter Darby and mother of Mrs. Thomas Duffy and Thomas Darby, died May 9, 1891. Survivors , husband, son and daughter.” So reads a small article from a long ago newspaper from Crescent City. As far as I can figure out Thomas Duffy was employed by his brother, James, whose listed as…

Sometimes one piece of information can open a flood gate to a rush of facts, which can nearly drown the person looking at it. That’s what has happened in the last couple of days after I was asked to add any information I had gathered on Bridgeville, California to the town’s webpage. It started with…

The town is often threatened by forest fires, most recently on July 29, 2006. Much of the town was evacuated for two days, but the fire was later controlled with little damage due to the efforts of federal, state and local firefighters. That’s about the time I was traveling along Highway 299, having been to…