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'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. About four 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.
Day 72: Trump calls the press to watch him sign some executive orders (remember when those were bad?). Someone in the press asked Trump about Flynn. Trump ran out of the room without signing the orders like he was having an IBS flare up. Maybe he had a round of golf to play and his … More A Shorter Week: 72- 78 Days
Day 79: Trump got his Supreme Court Justice through which is a win for Citizens United and continues the US on the path to kleptocracy. If you like your minimum wage jobs, polluting corporations, and loss of workers’ rights than this is a win for you. The republican Senate used the nuclear option to get … More A Shorter Week: 79-85 Days
Day 86: Trump’s back in Florida this weekend as the US and North Korea play a really scary game of “I know you are, but what am I?” Two leaders with two bad haircuts are trash talking their way toward Armageddon. I think Trump is hoping to end the world before he has to turn … More A Shorter Week: 86-92 Days
Day 93: The Russian hangman’s noose looms above the Trump administration. Carter Page, Manafort, Betsy DeVos’ brother, and Flynn all seem to be involved in something not so good. Media reports are increasing which probably means Trump is getting an itchy Twitter finger. Trump had the three idiots of the apocalypse visit the White House … More A Shorter Week: 93-99 Days
Winning…Winning…Winning. It’s time to count up the wins. Remember when you weren’t tired of winning? Those days are long gone. Let’s count them up: Mexican paid for walls: 0 Hillarys in jail: 0 Largest crowds: 0 Sean Spicer Meltdowns: 8 Extremely Vetted Muslim bans: 0 for 2 Wiretaps by Obama: 0 Jobs for Jared Kushner: … More Day 100
Donnie Big Tie skipped the White House Correspondents’ dinner and went to Penn for an election rally. People cheered him on as he explained how he was going to keep creating those coal jobs and opening those steam train factories. He invited President Dutarte to visit so he can learn how to move to the … More Day 101
So just for the record, here are the leaders Trump has praised: Duterte, LePen, Putin. Here’s the leader he refused to shake hands with Merkel. Does that strike anyone else as odd? In other news, North Korea says they are going to shoot off another rocket, Trump says if that happens there will be bigly, … More Day 102
If you were worried, I would run out of things to write about each day have no fear. Donnie Raccoon Eyes had a bigly, bigly day yesterday. He walked out on an interviewer who asked him about the wiretapping charges against Obama. We learned that Andrew Jackson, slave owner and racist, could have prevented the … More Day 103
A couple days ago, Donnie Vienna Sausage Fingers praised Kim Jung-un for being a really, really smart leader. Yep, what can I say? Add Un to the list of crazy people Donnie likes. Somebody better tell him that Stalin and Hitler are dead or we might end up with another Frederick Douglass incident. On the … More Day 104
After yesterday’s testimony by FBI Director Comey, I’ve decided that the investigation is either a slow rolling paving machine that will crush all of Trump’s cabinet, or it is one of those movies where one person infects the whole world with a fatal disease. One thing is certain, Anthony Wiener’s libido has caused some pretty … More Day 105
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