There is a part of me that is proud of what Mom and Dad have decided to do and a part of me that is entirely embarrassed. About 3 weeks ago they were given a tax notice that said the color of our house would cost them a greater amount of money. Well they protested…

There was a time when I’d simply get up, shower, dress, have a bite to eat and then head outside for the day. Now, I stay inside as if waiting for something to happen, something that has never come. As a kid I seemed to always have a notebook in hand, everyplace I went. Since…

It fell to me to eulogize Dad after his passing. Aside from family that lived in Muskogee, none of his California family, other than me, came to Oklahoma for his funeral.  The night before he was laid to rest, his wife and I sat up talking. Evidently Dad had not only invented an entirely new…

Brian Sandoval is quitting his lifetime appointment as a Federal Judge in order to run for the state’s governorship. Sandoval was Nevada attorney general before he quit to take over the bench and had been chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission before he bailed from the job to become AG. Simply put — Sandoval isn’t…

Some say that the roads in town Are really nothing but a joke. Those hole’s will break an axle And really rile up plain folk. Beaurcrate’s will spend your bucks. Act like they’re coverin’ the holes. But to them, it ain’t really a problem, Not quite like those opinion polls. “But the first hole that…

Tommy bid his step-mother Jere’ good-bye and turned his truck north out of Muskogee for the long journey home to Reno. He drove all day and deep into the night, finally stopping just after midnight about an hour beyond Cheyenne, Wyoming. He pulled his truck off the highway and down the long dirt road into…

Tommy never stopped asking questions. Tommy liked to ask them. In fact, he had made a game of asking questions in some instances. For example, his seventh grade teacher could never resist a good question. He led the class in asking Mr. Brown questions about his life for an entire week before he figured out…

For nearly nine months Tommy tried his best to carry on with his life. He had retired from broadcasting and found a new job and even though he was still married he had even gotten a girlfriend. Her name was Kathi. Unfortunately that relationship seemed to be doomed from the start. He was unable to…

Two days,” he thought to himself. Then he repeated the words again, “Two days.” He said it as if he couldn’t believe it. And really he couldn’t. It had all happened so fast. It had only been two days ago that he found himself in Dave’s office being blamed for a situation that was not…

Where to start?” Tom asked himself as he sat in the library staring at the blank page as it had been a very confusing year. It began on a day that the rest of the world would remember as the day the World Trade Center was attacked. He reflected back to his wife standing in…