My friend drives a small Sonoma pick-up, it's about eighteen-years-old and in great shape. One day we were going to lunch and she parked next to a huge Ford F-250. The owner looked at my friend's truck and made a comment to his wife, who snickered. Th...
0430 Military time, 8 year old Theo would wake up, clean up, put on his dungarees, and fill up with whatever Mama bought that week. By 0515 get to the corner for the farm truck to come by. Everyone there was speaking another language, yet they came to kn...
I walked up from the Ventura River bottom where I spent the night. Nighttime in a homeless camp is very different, a strange mixture of camaraderie and distrust. Not unpleasant, but not great either. I was only interested in sleep without spending money....
Today is September 18, 2013, I was hit by a car around 10:15, I knew that because I had worn my pocket watch as a necklace. It was a normal day at first, I had other things on my mind this morning. My dad woke me up to tell me that I had to cover for my o...
The Beast is the older of our two grain trucks. I better describe it , so that you have a picture in your mind of what it really is like. Its a 1968 Dodge grain/dump truck, built like a tank, unlike the newer converted grain trucks that have been used on...
