Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Least racist person you’ll ever meet and most racist person I know, President Agent Orange Julius Caesar Salad Hair Lord Dampnut Dumpster Fire and Furher Von Trumplestillskin Von Trumpenstein Von Jenius is celebrating MLK day by volunteering at a local soup kitchen as has become the tradition of presidents since MLK day was founded… Got you! He’s not volunteering, he’s GOLFING!
El Presidente Loco sent Mike “Future President” Pence to the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in WA DC to make a statement. Pence did not get up and walk out after he heard that King was a black protestor, but since he wasn’t at a football game he decided that MLK’s protests were okay. Or, he could have just been covering for his racist boss.
The failing New York Times just put out milestone list from Trumplestillskin: 2000 lies. That’s right, he has told 2000 lies in his 359 days in office. Around six a day, so one for every diet Coke he drinks. He is also now attacking Dick Durbn (Trumplestillskin is calling Senator Durbin “Dicky” but I don’t believe in name calling, so I’ll keep it as just Dick.) Trumpenstein is claiming that if he can’t trust Dick to keep Donnie’s racist rants secret, then deals can’t get made. “See Dick not keep a secret. You know who knows how to keep a secret? Vlad knows how. See Vlad keep a secret. Vlad knows how to keep a secret. Good, Vlad, good. Vlad is keeping a secret, but bad inspector Mueller keeps getting closer to finding out what Vlad’s secret is.”
I don’t know what type of DACA deal Trumplestillskin thinks he’s going to make because he still needs to learn what DACA is and who the Dreamers are. I’m not going to hold my breath for him to learn. The guy has had 359 days in office, and I believe he has not learned a single thing… well, he did find out he can’t put a lock on the door to his bedroom and that $130,000 may not be enough to keep a porn star quiet.
What have I learned in the 359 days? That souvlaki never gets old.
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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