Chasing Smoke by Bill Cameron; 286 pages; 2008; Bleak House Books, Madison, WI; 978-1-60648–018-2; $24.95; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Gresham; 5/27-5/30 When four men all suffering from cancer commit suicide, Skin Kadashs’ former partner asks him to take a look. Knowing his bulldog tenacity she tells him to drop it, which just makes [...]
I thought about what song to post today, since it is Memorial Day. There are lots of Trace Adkins songs that would be appropriate, but I will save them for Veterans Day. I chose this song because it reminds me of Ruth Anns’ Mom Glenda, as it was played at her memorial service. We Miss [...]
Barry and Denise are another couple who are in a Fellowship of Pirates with us. I feel some kind of special kinship with Barry and I not sure why, other than I know that if I needed something and called Barry and told him I needed help he would probably be there before I hung [...]
One of the funniest things that I have ever heard is the classic Abbott & Costello baseball routine “Who’s on First?”.
From 2005 to 2008 I would take a weeks vacation to relax and read. 05-07 I went and spent some time on a mountain in Washington, I read 11 books each of those weeks. In ’08 I went to my cousin Johns’ place near Table Rock in Southern Oregon and read 11 books in that [...]
