If you close your eyes and try to picture the future what do you see? Do you see floating skyscrapers and gravity defying cars? Teleportation devices or regular visits to other planets? Will we be ruled by some super intelegent computer overlord? I hope not. Sounds like a lot of fragile moving parts. I see …
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Hazards of the Job
The blood on the walls served as a reminder that this job was too dangerous. In the twenty six years I had been working with saws professionally I had never been cut by one. When the water hit the dirt covered surface it combined into a slick mud where I was grasping the suitcase sized …
Signs of the Apocalypse
“Harry Potter” stood in the middle of the two lane road. Everyone called him that, it wasn’t his real name but he looked just like the character. His bright yellow rain gear lit up in the headlights casting a cautionary yellow glow on the wet blacktop. He was swinging his flashlight to get our attention …
The Mud Brothers
I remember the mud Brothers well. They always had greasy hands from working on some old wreck they had acquired. The two were big boys. Younger than I was at the time. Nice enough though. They were always coming over to borrow some tool or chain to pull something out of the mud. Their parents …
Valley of Demons
The Klickitat Indians had a name for the place, Yacolt. It translated into “Valley of Demons”. They believed that evil spirits there would take people away and there are many accounts of this happening. I rented a house in the area and I can tell you it lives up to the name. One account I …
Tim
My brother Tim was an angry kid. He had good reason to be. His Leukemia was in remission at the time of this story but the memories of chemotherapy where still heavy on his thirteen year old mind. A friend of Grandpa’s, Vergil, had a couple of acres of land down by the Cowlitz river. …
My First Blog Post
If you knew nothing about God, what would you believe in? If there were no holy books, or religious leaders, how could you understand the concepts of right and wrong? Would you even care? Human beings have worshiped deity’s long before recorded history. So, I have to think, it would at some point creep into …
About me..
I really don’t like talking about myself but, it’s a recommended practice so, I’ll tell you the things about me that I feel are important. My parents divorced when I was two years old. Not an uncommon story today but in my small town in the mid seventies I was an oddity. A theme that …
Deus Lux 