Trump’s new plan for healthcare is to repeal Obamacare and replace it later…like 2028. This might sound like a great idea for someone who is in excellent shape like Donnie “Long Ties Cover My Big Belly” Trump, but most people need healthcare. Trump believes, I’m not making this up, that people are like batteries and when we run out of our charge we die. That’s why he eats a nine-volt battery for breakfast every day. (I made that part up. Fake news at its finest.)
The Trump tweet about Mika having a face lift has gotten a lot of blowback from people, but there are still people who defend Trump because he was criticized first. Now, I don’t want to use logic to prove a point, but I don’t recall Bush, or Obama acting like this. They certainly absorbed a good deal of criticism without being an Orange Pus Filled Bag of Anger.
Trump will meet his Bro, Vlad Putin, at the G-20 summit in Hamburg. Hamburg is a great city. My suggestion is for them to get together at the Minatur Wunderland. http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com Trump’s hands will look HUGE there, and Putin’s little shoes will be gigantic. He won’t need to take off his shirt to look manly. The harbor area (HafenCity) is a great place to look for a souvlaki too.
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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