PAPAYA! Weird heading? Well, yeah, but let me explain. The other night Debbie and I were watching the 1% Club game show on TV, which, if you haven’t seen it, is addictive to watch, mostly just to show you that you are not as smart as you think you
SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS It’s been quite a few years since this happened. One of Debbie’s coworkers had a death in the family. Debbie wanted to go to the funeral and I went with her. We had an address in Citrus Heights and we got there a few
POPULAR SPOT Some things are out of place by accident. A fish jumps out of water and lands in a fisherman’s rowboat. Someone on their way to a costume party walks into a Chinese restaurant by mistake dressed as the Incredible Hulk. It happens, and it draws your immediate
SO, WHAT’S THE NEW JOB LIKE? 1978- Wheatland P.D.- An enthusiastic 22-year-old kid fresh out of college walks into the police department. Yeah, it’s my first day. I talk to the Chief, who introduces me to an officer named Dave. We talk for a few minutes,
THE LONG RUN A while back we were clearing some stuff out of the garage and I came across a big poster board that I recognized as being from Erin’s room. Growing up she had put years of memorable items on it, which included a plastic pin, which, triggered
THE RETURN I had just gotten out of bed and was making my morning espresso. I was sitting at the kitchen counter and out of the corner of my eye I saw movement outside. As I walked over to the sliding glass door I saw it was a deer, some
A Victory to Savor When I graduated from UOP, they had a football team. The old fashioned bowl stadium that was built on the south end of the campus had been around since 1950. I went to a bunch of games at the stadium, and my freshman year there, we
DUDLEY DO-RIGHTS 1961- Tony Curtis made a movie called The Great Imposter. It was a mildly humorous film about a guy who from a very young age learns how to impersonate people so effectively that he manages to travel globally, assuming fake identities and job titles, which he convinces a
IT’S SHOWTIME 1974- My home town of Nicolaus had the Bridge House bar which was the sight of a Hollywood movie setting starring Dale Robertson. The Bridge House itself was an old wooden two story that looked like it was built around 1900. A lot of folks turned out
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING Back when I was a freshman in High School, I was talking to a guy at the start of class who told me he had to leave because he had to go to court. This was a conversation starter I had never had before, so naturally,
CLOTHING OPTIONAL Back in high school, a friend of mine told me how someone had given him some unusual advice on how to avoid getting into a fight. The advice? If someone wants to fight you, start taking your clothes off and growling and howling like an animal. Nobody wants
PEEPS There was a battle for territory on our front porch a few weeks ago. The bird that has endeared itself to Debbie, has been perching on our front door ring camera post, at night only, for more than a year now. It made no mess, came in each night