Where is Michael Flynn? Where is Sean Spicer? Where are the Comey tapes? Where is the evidence that three million people voted illegally? That’s right, we’ll find out soon. Just wait. Next week it will happen.
Michael Flynn is the most interesting invisible man to me. There are unnamed sources saying that Flynn is blabbing on Trump to save his own bacon. (Flynn bacon, the bacon that tastes like it was made in the USA but is really a product of Russian billionaires.) Mueller has hired one high powered lawyer who specializes in getting witnesses to roll over on defendants. The tea leaves indicate that everyone in the White House is currently preparing to say, “He made me do it.”
Sean Spicy Spicer has vanished in plain sight. No one is allowed to take photos or record his pressers. (Maybe he believes photographs steal his soul…wait, does he have a soul?) His press conferences are like talking to a student who read Sparknotes as opposed to actually reading the book. He has been asked for a month whether Trump thinks global warming has been sped up by human actions. Spicer keeps saying, “I’ll get back to you on that.” Rumor has it that the spicy one will soon be replaced by Mike Huckabee’s daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders (adult Wednesday Addams look-alike). Huckabee Sanders has the ability to lie without blinking, so she’s got that going for her.
In the “somebody needs to be locked up for not securing information” news, the RNC has released the private information of over 200 million voters. I’m not sure if the RNC’s goal is to put Wikileaks out of business by beating them at their own game, but it’s a start.
One place that will never go out of business is Souvlaki Hut. (Look closely when watching Mad Max Thunderdome…I think there is a Souvlaki Hut in Gas Town.)
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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