The Orange Man with the Tiny Hands and the Big Plans is in Paris today. He’s there to celebrate Bastille Day…that was the day when the French overthrew the King and chopped off his head. (Donnie better to make sure his comb-over can withstand the machine…this is a joke. I am not suggesting Mr. Trump should be beheaded, but an extra can of hairspray never hurts.) It should be a good visit for Melania…she looked very excited to leave WA DC and get some shopping done.
I watched Trump walk next to Macron at Les Invalides and started to wonder if Trump is having some kind of physical problem. He can’t seem to manage the uneven cobblestones and was walking like a drunk. He is old, so that could be the reason, or it could be that his brain doesn’t work.
Yesterday, a gaggle of evangelical ministers laid hands on Donnie “Access Hollywood Confession Bus” Trumpster fire. I’m not sure which is more concerning, that Trump is impersonating a person of faith, or that these rubes believe Trump takes his vitamins, reads his bible, and gets down on his knees to pray each night. Who is conning who?
Congressman Brad Sherman has drawn up articles of Impeachment for Donnie Hairdo. This won’t go anywhere, but the pressure is building. Mueller is being pretty quiet while he collects information.
The most disturbing news of the day is that Kid Rock is running for US Senate in Michigan. Are we entering a time period when anyone with enough money can run for office? I’d think we would want people who knew a little about the job and how government works. A platform of: “I like guns and Budweiser” isn’t really any way to run a country. A few factoids about the future senator from Michigan: High School Dropout…assaulted someone outside a Waffle House (This should automatically disqualify anyone from office, it isn’t the fighting that upsets me, it’s the Waffle House part.) …According to him, he is an ordained minister…has had more than a few brushes with the law…and his music sucks. (This is a fact. This isn’t a matter of taste. IT’S A FACT!) Chances are he’ll win.
Something else that is a fact and not a matter of taste is how great a souvlaki tastes.
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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