A Freelance Writer's Blog

     Tom and Mary (Klippel) met me at the Anchorage Airport back on July 30 for the first stop in my soujorn here and there in America’s Last Frontier. The flight up via Alaska Airlines was… well a flight up. A few hours of boring through the skies in a big aluminum tube. I’m semi-ambivalent about flying. […]

     Sometime back in another post, I was bemoaning the status of my 1997 Lumina. Actually, it was Grams car. She picked it out, color and all, with only small influence on my part. I convinced her to have GM cram the largest engine available under the hood.      With 127,000+ miles on the odometer, the car […]

      I’ve become somewhat of a fan of TV dinners, especially those by Healthy Choice, Lean Cuisine, and Banquet Meals. Although, the word banquet is somewhat out of place for those meals. Marie Calendar, Claim Jumper and a few others are excellent, but outside my scope, as you’ll see in a bit.      The appealing […]

            On the way to St. George, Utah, on Monday, May 18, to attend my granddaughter Erika’s high school graduation, I stopped in Las Vegas to play a tournament round of Texas Hold-Em. Fortunately, I had made a reservation at the Fitzgerald Hotel and Casino. Fortunately because….                         [10:30 AM that same day]             I […]

On his way from Colorado to Alaska, Geoff stopped by for a couple of weeks. Chef that he is, he took over 95% of the cooking chores. Most of which involved charcoal grilling. I’d guess we went through at least 40 pounds of charcoal, and several bags of hickory and apple wood chips. I love […]

[I found some of this stuff in the “Draft Box.” I can’t tell whether it was ever posted. If it was…. well, read it again anyway.] We had sort of a family gathering here back in March. Seems like it was spring break.  My Utah daughter, DeAnne, called and asked me if she and my […]

Back in the mid-70s I got a yen to get my pilot’s license. I did and the Grams and I made a few trips hither and yon.  She enjoyed being up there looking down and had no problem following our flights on the sectional charts and helping me navigate. She even took the controls now […]

— Whilst roaming around Stater Bros a couple days ago, I met up with Margarita Chapman. Margarita is Executive Director for the Ridgecrest office of Creating Healthy Lives. Florence (AKA Grams) started lobbying Margarita a couple years ago to apply for a grant to provide free breast cancer screening, including mammograms, for women who didn’t have […]

—I wish I was as good as Geoff at this blogging stuff. Maybe I’ll figure it out. Someday. —Riddle Time: What is still standing after being attacked for five days by three men wielding picks, axes, shovels, chainsaws, and a Bobcat? . . . .  One humongous eucalyptus tree stump    .   — Over […]