©2013 Rick Hardman I often feel as if I am trapped within a bubble. The wide world is all around me but here I am isolated and separate. It seems impossible to escape into the reality that surrounds me. Nor can others enter my world. I just float on and on, alone. Weightless, in the…
Norm Magnusson is planning more nose tweaking, this time along the New York State Thruway. I used to travel that highway when I lived in Upstate New York so I can envision the route and am tickled by the prospect. I wrote about Norm’s I-75…
© 2013 Rick Hardman The glaring light from the string of bulbs above the mirror does me no favours. Apparently, I combed my hair with an egg beater this morning. But, at least I have hair, My one small victory. Though who is that stranger…
Mother had told us her brother Speed (Levi Outhouse) was moving to Twin Falls. We knew he had been living in an SRO (single-room occupancy) building in Portland, Oregon. The building was being demolished. With nowhere to go, he became yet another recipient of my…
My former husband and I were farming on Vancouver Island when we first heard of Fred Eaglesmith. The friend who introduced us to his music was another smallholder. We were all working as many jobs as it took to pay the bills for farms that…
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