Wild Coyote Chili

Amy and Ella, in full snob mode, were complaining about the canned chili we were eating. The chili was the last of the stock of canned soups we had purchased at the start of the COVID food shortage scare. I told them,

Survive Your Family

Our family has gotten into Jackbox Games, a collection of party games hosted through an internet-connected TV and played through devices, which substitute for game pieces, cards, whiteboards, scratch pads, etc. We

Better Welts

I got several striped welts on my outer forearms from trimming weeds, this from a combination of lack of protective arm coverings and the tendency for my high-velocity spinning trimmer head to assist pebbles to self-actualize their ordinance-in-David

Coroner Trucking

Dale walked along the side of his rig, his steel-toed boots crunching through the gravel (a weighty trade from the Nike joggers he

Precision Fire Breath

Rodgers: Johnson, we need to talk about the pigeon problem on our transmission lines.

Johnson: Agreed, sir. Though, which problem? Acidic breakdown of the wire sheath from the pigeons

Graffiti Defense System

We live in Gresham, OR. While walking on the bike path next to our home and toward the creatively named Gresham Food Carts, I noticed an unusual industrial paint job. The back of a warehouse had been painted brown halfway up, terminating in a flat line transition to grayish, beige-ish concrete about nine feet up. 

This strip of brown is pristine, not a graffiti mark on it, and it

Richard Mixin’

Ella said

Crackling Options

While on a walk yesterday on the bike path, Amy asked me if I could hear the overhead powerlines crackling. I couldn

Destroying to Dream

Will was crushing dandelion heads with his hand, acting like a titan destroying cities and skyscrapers. This calls for bad poetry to go on the prowl again.

On a day with sun, on a day with pride

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