Sigh
Congressman John Lewis, hero. RIP. 🙏 🇺🇸 Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, July 18, 2020
Friday, July 17, 2020
A HEAD IN A BAG AND A LONG PIECE OF THREAD
Between Boring, Oregon and Peculiar, Missouri there's a name they left off their list of strange town names in America. I believe there's a place we used to laugh about called Stinkin' Creek, Arkansas. Doesn't matter a jot or a tittle what the AAA atlas calls these places, to the locals they're just... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Wednesday's child
Yesterday - Wednesday - it was hot and humid and the weather map on Channel 4 was ominous. Possible severe storms. Then around 4:30 they interrupted "Inside Edition" with warnings of a tornado watch, severe thunderstorms, high winds, the kind of turbulence we used to see only in April & May as... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
NO STORY FROM THE CENTER TODAY
On Sunday I felt punk. Exhausted. Achy. Couldn't focus. All TV was fractious jerky political rehashed mud slinging done from one point of view on one network, and the opposite on another. None of it seemed logical or factual, just finger pointing and "ain't-it-awful" rambling rhetoric. Reruns of old... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
SOMETHING FROM THE SIXTIES
I’d been at the university for several years – in fact I’d been working there since June of 1960, before the parking lots had been graded and paved on the new campus, before the barns and mansion from the horse ranch at the central core had been taken down, before the classroom buildings, the... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, July 13, 2020
THIS 'N THAT
SCREAMING? Misread the words on a photo of a sign to be posted on the schoolhouse door in the event they open for classes at the end of August. What I saw was a bullet list, protocol for entering the building. “Item 1) Begin with screaming.” Wait, what? That can’t be right. On second glance I... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE (Pacific North)WEST
I was eighteen, new graduate of Mossyrock High School, working in the mail room of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company’s headquarters in Seattle. My high school sweetheart had been deployed to Korea. He had called off our engagement “for the duration” because his mother had suggested both of... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, July 11, 2020
DID YOU GET MY EMAIL?
THE MAIN STREET CENTER - Tuesday morning. The phone rings. “Main Street Center, May I help you?” “I’m just checking to make sure Angela got my email,” said the caller. “I’m sorry, she’s not available right now. May I take a message?” “I’m just making sure she got my message. This is Cindy from... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, July 10, 2020
FRIDAY NIGHT NEWS
Pardon me, said Roger. Of course, said Donald. and somewhere in the Kremlin, Vladmir is rubbing his hands together in delight. Sign in to see full entry.
DATING GAMES
It was the early ‘80s – even at the university the good old boys, especially certain academics with tenure, thought females were fair game. Secretaries, lady professors, students – it was all one big candy store. At that time I was happily single again, a busy mom taking twelve credit hours of... Sign in to see full entry.