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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
2024 Reflections: Not So Bad… Really And another year bites the dust! I’ve had better years, but 2024 wasn’t so bad… really. It’s all relative. Some health glitches, starting in April with a urinary infection that required the installation of a catheter, which I endured from April 28 to May […]
I was looking back through my archives and discovered a story I had written back in July, 2020. Below is the story, verbatim. Things don’t seem to change much, do they? Government Food Chain – July 2020 A best-selling political satirist couldn’t come up with a fictional story more bizarre […]
THOSE WERE THE DAYS Once upon a time there was a tavernWhere we used to raise a glass or twoRemember how we laughed away the hoursAnd dreamed of all the great things we would do I remember those days quite well. At age 81 (82 in less than a month! […]
WHY WE LIVE HERE – PART FIVE Once again thanks to the Red Scarf Society, bless their hearts, for bringing to Siskiyou County another great musical experience Tuesday night: a Beach Boys tribute band called Sail On. They were wonderful, especially for a geezer like me. I have vivid personal […]
There was a time when most towns had drive-in theatres. The remnants of one still existed when Ann and I came to Yreka in 1972. During my college days they were a big deal. I went to the University of Arizona in Tucson, class of 1964. Tucson’s most notorious drive-in […]
OrTHE MAD PLAYERS DID IT AGAIN! Trouble! It’s 1867 and Beaver Valley is in crisis. The townsfolk are divided … over everything! Incivility is the order of the day. Nothing is getting done around town, the children are behaving like wild animals, and the new schoolmarm is at her wit’s […]
The Septuagenarian Speaks – published November 8, 2018, Siskiyou Daily News “ ‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she forgot how to speak good English.)” I think I know how Lewis Carroll’s fictional character Alice felt back in 1865. I’m trying to […]
In 1976 the City of Yreka, with much community fund-raising support, constructed a public building that its citizens could take pride in. It was the Yreka Community Theater, at the end of North Oregon Street, next to Yreka High School. It’s a beautiful structure, but … The city’s current website […]
Summery: “Don’t Give Up Trying to Save the Dams. It’s About More Than the Fish” discusses the environmental concerns related to the potential removal of dams, with a focus on the impact on fish, particularly salmon. The article mentions that the decline in the fish population is attributed to the […]
Having lived in Siskiyou County for more than half a century, it worries and distresses me to observe the gradual disappearance of the things that make our rural lifestyle what it is, things that make it desirable and economically viable to live here. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not ready […]
