~ Hey canyon crow ~ wing-tipping the rim! ~ Riding the flow ~ of warm updrafts thin. ~ Where do you go ~ on a soaring whim? ~ What do you...

Every time I cook up a batch of spaghetti sauce, I think of Betty. I had not heard of bay leaf before Betty. She made its use special...

~ A Mystery Novel ~ This is a work of fiction inspired by real experiences of my life. It includes passages of real events, people,...

STINK vs STENCH ~ The final day of the documentary shoot, we woke up to a horrible stink in the house. Southwestern Oklahoma was dealing...

Gathered first chokecherries of the season this morning from a patch near the county road. It's always first to ripen up and first to get...

A PERFECT STORM ~ Success did not come easy for the Russells. Thirteen years working together, Harley and Annabelle kept an open mind as...

STAMINA & STOICISM ~ The entire duration of the documentary shoot, I lived in the Russell's Redneck Castle with them–sleeping on their...

BAD AFTER GOOD ~ Although Erick was never really part of the dust bowl, it was close. As a child living in Sayre less than sixteen miles...

COMPETITION? ~ I once stopped at a brand new Route 66 roadside attraction shortly after it opened. It was a museum established in an old...

21st CENTURY STARTUP ~ My earliest years of life were spent living in different towns located on or near Route 66 in Oklahoma which meant...

SUCCESS AT LAST ~ Growing up, I lived in several places from small towns of meager populations to a sprawling city of more than four...

Some years there is an abundance of choke cherries and I never hesitate to harvest as much as possible anywhere bears are not feeding on...

HARLEY & ANNABELLE'S TOUCH ~ A decade before the turn of the century, a friend asked me to join him playing in a folk and bluegrass music...