On Tax Day, Auditors and Cow Manure
Tuesday last was tax day and as I usually do around April 17, I ponder taxes, money, accountants. All of this, of course, fuels imagery that erupts from the past: characters, events, some funny, some sad, some unwanted, some I am glad I remembered. In 1979-1980 I worked for a big corporation in the ag [...]
Oh Outhouses, Four-Holers, and Burning the Heads
One of the Twitter headlines for The Washington Post.com on 4/5/2011 was, “Is it impolite to bring reading material to a public restroom?” I chuckled when I read that and not because of the inanity of the query, but because of memories that hove into my mind’s view. In early April, 1968, I had just [...]
