Colonel Robert “Bud” Laux and Dad served in France together while in the U.S. Air Force. My parents liked and trusted Bud so much that they asked him to be one of my God-parents. Bud, as I knew him, flew a number of bombing missions in Europe during World War II. He was shot down by…

“You’d best take a look at the obituary,” my bride said as she held out the section of the Reno Gazette-Journal for me to read. I looked up from sharpening my knife with a half smirk on my face and asked, “Why is my name in it?” The look in my brides face told me…

There’s nothing worse than having a good message, but garbling it up due to poor wording and bad facts. Case in point: the ongoing federal budget battle and the war of words between Senator Harry Reid and conservative commentators. It started with Reid, who bragged, “The National Endowment for the Humanities is the reason we…

Later afternoon, March 4, I was there when they called it off, stood on the lip of that old mine shaft, peering down into the darkness where a man still breathed but couldn’t be saved. The wind came in low, whispering through the sage, and the sun had that dull afternoon glare, turning everything the…

As I recall, I was playing in the large field across the street from our home. That’s when I saw the dark blue sedan with the yellow print on its doors pull in to the drive way. At first I simply stood still, watching the car back out of the drive and alongside the curb.…

A bill requiring garages to check the tire pressures on vehicles that come into the shop for repair has cleared the Nevada Senate. SB144 was approved along mostly party lines, with Republican Senator Joe Hardy of Boulder City voting with Democrats for passage. Under the bill, repair shops would need to fill tires according to…

The passing of my old man fairly well wrecked me for half-a-year. At the time I felt as if I were the only one in my immediate family that cared about his death. And worse still, I had not yet learned how to talk about what it was I was feeling. Many nights and early…

“That song ‘Crazy Out There’ really reminds me about myself,” I said to my bride. Then I added, “I thought I had really lost it there for a while.” She looked at me and smiled, “Do you want to talk about it?” she asked. I nodded, “Yeah, but I’m not al too sure where to…

“Come on, Dad,” Kyle called to me as he trotted ahead and up the Fourth Ward Schools front steps. I was one of his class field trip chaperones to the Comstock, site of Nevada’s first silver rush. Once inside we were met by the three young high school girls who would be conducting the tour of the…

“Barry turned you in even though he gave it to you.” Holly said to me. “Don’t you think I know that,” I returned. We both knew that, as well as the reason why. Now I had to save myself from being arrested. “This isn’t supposed to be how it was to go down,” I said aloud. Holly reached…