Mr. Steven “Cirrhosis Face” Bannon has been traded for three white nationalists to be named later and a two-hundred-pound bag of mixed animal lard that’s been sitting in a backyard in Athens, Georgia for three months. Let’s look back on the good times we had with Mr. “Gastrointestinal Bleeding” Bannon. Let me see…what were the good old times with Stevie? Oh, the time he got fired. That was the best part.
Now we need to get rid of Stephen Miller and Seb Gorka. Bannon took his old job back at Breitbart News and will be spewing hate until he enters the Betty Ford Clinic…or he takes a ride on a donkey to Damascus.
Carl Icahn has resigned from his advisory position in the White House. I don’t know anything about this guy other than Trump always said he was the best and smartest guy. Quitting proves he still has at least three firing brain cells.
President Agent Orange Julius Caesar Salad with Anchovies Trumpster-fire and Fury Von Trumplestillskin has announced that he and the first lady will not be attending the Kennedy Center Awards. He doesn’t want it to be a place where people feel the need to distance themselves from his Vesuvius like administration. Instead of attending the Kennedy Center Awards he will be going to the Duck Dynasty Awards. The DDA will be recognizing people who have done their part to continue the southern way of life. David Duke, General Robert E. Lee, the guys from Deliverance, Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Wallace, and Frederick Douglass (if he can make it) will be given Confederate flag shirts and second place trophies.
The entire Trumplestillskin Art’s council quit too. So, you can forget about getting classy art stuff like Trump has. No gilded rooms filled with uncomfortable chairs and mirrors for the everyman…too bad…I was hoping to be turning my house into coal burning, golden palace. I would invite everyone over and serve souvlaki on golden plates.
Why is my page titled South of the Strait? Well I live in a far corner of the United States. I live in a small town south of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. If I was going to throw a rock across the strait it would land in Canada. I used to be an English teacher. I have worked in Westport, Port Angeles, and Sequim, Washington... and I did two years of substitute teaching in Coalinga, California.
I've moved around a lot, living in: Sterling,Kansas; Chicago; Jordan, Montana; Lemoore, California; Auckland, New Zealand; Spokane, Washington; Gambier, Ohio.
What do I write? For WordPress I used to print once a week for general comments. I wrote reviews of music concerts my daughter made me attend. (Each month she would want us to drive to Seattle to see a music group. I usually stood in the back watching weird stuff.) I also wrote about trips I have taken in Europe where I liked getting lost. I also wrote during the few months when my son was treated for cancer. (He is officially free of cancer of five years.) About three years ago I decided to stop writing blogs so I could concentrate on writing a few books. I have completed three books...or maybe four. I have now compiled my short stories poems and memoirs on Amazon. You can get it at Amazon now..."A Work In Progress"--Jon Eekhoff. I have been very close to getting a printed book called "Lost Summer" but I was never offered $1,000,000.00. (It's set in Paris, 1920's, with baseball, writers, artist, and actually true stuff.) I wrote a book about college basketball called "Laidlaw." It's kind of a mix of "Moby Dick" and a coach who is about to get fired so he takes his team out for a free drive around the West. My most recent book is "California Tales." These are connected stories about the missionary churches in California. They are sad, funny, inspiring, and odd. I had the entire book done in my head and had just one section to finish the next day...and that is when I fell 20 feet from my roof and landed on the cement. (Like a lot of men, I thought I could maintain my own roof instead of leaving it to the professionals.) I don't remember anything about my accident but I am told I was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Though conscious and responsive after surgery to remove part of my skull, I don't remember anything from my first month there. I spent another month of Harborview working on walking, speaking, and writing. That was two years ago. As a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) survivor, I could have quit writing, but I am not going to quit. I work with the University of Washington Speech and Hearing Clinic.
So, here I am. I am married and live here in Sequim with my wife Cheryl. Our kids live in nearby cities. Writing is now an exhausting exercise, but something I plan to keep working on.
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