Handling money has always terrified me because I have “dyscalculia.” It’s the numerical equivalent of dyslexia. During high school, each sport or discipline had to take turns in the ticket-gate for home football and basketball games. It was during the basketball season that I was placed in the ticket window. By the end of the…

Perhaps I should have left the moment Deirdre called me, but instead I waited about six-hours and now, it was too late. I had already stopped at Eureka General and now I was pulling up into the driveway at Mom and Del’s home. However it was no longer Del’s home either. He had passed away…

The entire U.S. Air Force environmental health class was out in the field studying vector control. After a lengthy bus ride, we hiked into the area in which our instructors had pre-selected as our outdoor classroom for the day. It was an area covered with rocks and small tree-like plants. It was obvious to me…

Shortly before Mom and Dad decided to convert the garage into a rumpus room; it was a plain old place to park the car. However, neither parent ever bothered to bring the car inside. Instead it was simply a place for Adam and me to play, Dad to do whatever household repairs he was given…

Our 1971 Opel Cadet was in the shop being repairs and Dad had to borrow Pa Sanders’ old Dodge for the day. We were there to shop for my high school graduation suit. Mom and I got out of the car in front of Daly’s Department store and went inside to start looking. Dad stopped to drop…

Jerry Lane, Esq., passed away after a nearly two year-long battle with cancer. He’s Kyle’s and his sister Kaitlyn’s maternal-grandfather. I feel badly for their mother, Charissa as she was unable say goodbye in person and I know how desperate that can be. Jerry never really cottoned to me, after-all I got his only daughter pregnant. And…

The Christmas before, there had been several fist-fights in stores across the nation over the toy “Cabbage Patch Kids.” Cathy Andre’s mother, Shirley, however found a way to creat her own “kid.” It was made from old nylon panty-hose and cotton batting, with movable arms and legs. And best of all, Shirley’s were more life-like…

“Ron Schmitt just called me, saying the police refused to go to his church and investigate some vandalism,” my editor, Angela Mann said, “I’d like you to go up and take a look around. I think there’s a good story in this.” Ron was a Sparks’s city councilman and part of the lay-clergy at the…

Steve and I were in the middle of a shift change at KEKA. Our sister-station, KFMI, was on an automated reel-to-reel system with pre-recorded voice drops, so we we’re the only two in the building or scheduled to be there at that time. A sudden rapping at the back door alerted us that someone else…

Kyle was sitting on the couch in the living room. His legs were crossed and  hands were folded behind his head. He was watching “Barney and Friends. ” It’s a show about a big purple T-rex that befriends a group of kids, sings, dances and tells stories. I was in the kitchen washing up the…