Sonora Pass
My thanks to Thomas Atkins for the story and photos of Sonora Pass. As a native Sonoran (now in my 90’s), I can recall going over the Pass with my family when it was a dirt road. We went in an old Ford with such faulty brakes that my Dad cut down a small […]

Seventh Time’s the Charm
Great Falls, MI – If there is going to be a drunk driving accident, it is probably best if the two vehicles involved both have drunk drivers behind the wheel. While one of the drivers was receiving her first DUI, the other was earning his seventh! Although the 40-year-old man was arrested […]

-Thursday the 29th: The globular cluster known as M13 passes high overhead this evening. It looks like a faint, fuzzy point of light in the constellation Hercules. It is 25,000 light-years away and contains hundreds of thousands of stars, crammed into a small volume of space. Sounds like a busy neighborhood.
- Friday the 30th: Hercules, […]

On Friday, May 23 fifty-two students from Sullivan Creek and Belleview School filled the Twain Harte Community Center for pizza and a cribbage tournament. Students from Nancy Hoyt’s Belleview class and Jean Garritz’s Sullivan Creek class, comprised mostly of fifth graders and a few fourth and sixth graders, paired up with students from the opposite […]

The Jokers Wild
(The Game)
“Lets play cards,” The Shadow said.
“Hearts are trumps, the ‘Jokers Wild’
Life’s the game we’ll play.”
So we played a card a minute,
And made a trick a day;
Then with just one card left to me,
The King of Hearts – to lay.
(The Shadow smiled)
Then I heard him say,
“Son – Some play long,
Some play hard,
Others short […]