We had to get up at the ungodly hour of 6 o’clock yesterday morning because we had to be at the trust attorney’s office in Snowflake at 8. We originally formed our family trust in Florida back in 2021, but there are quite a few differences between Arizona law and Florida law. The easiest thing […]
Scottish poet Robert Burns was spot-on with his famous line, “The best-laid plans of mice and men oft’ go awry.” But you know the origin of that poem? Legend has it that Burns was plowing the fields at his farm late in the year when he accidentally destroyed a mouse’s nest, something the little critter […]
We have a large gravel parking area at our house, but ever since we moved in it’s been hard to access the best part of it because our cargo trailer has been parked in front of the garage, still waiting to be completely emptied out. I had most of it done except for our four […]
For much of my working life I published small town weekly newspapers on the Pacific Northwest coast and in northern Arizona’s White Mountains. A while back I wrote about those days in a series of blog posts that readers seemed to enjoy, and I have had several requests from new blog readers to repeat the […]
Thank you to everybody who emailed or sent me messages or left comments after yesterday’s blog about the problems I was having trying to get everything transferred from Terry’s old Moto Z Play phone to her new Samsung Galaxy S 10+. Someone suggested trying to do it by Bluetooth, Someone else asked why I didn’t […]
After reading yesterday’s blog post Stepping On Toes, in which I mentioned receiving death threats and being assaulted during my time publishing small town newspapers, a couple of blog readers said they would like to hear some stories from those days. I’ve definitely got some stories to tell, and they don’t all involve death threats […]