The Crazy Bear Chronicles

The Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Oregon, USA They’d spent three days trying to sail the boat on Tillamook Bay. Th...

General Stanley McChrystal General Stanley McChrystal got sacked today. I wonder if he expected any differently as he came home for his...

One day in the mid-nineteen-sixties, Mr and Mrs. Cecil F Dickinson moved into the house across from my home. Cecil (or "Dick," as...

Tonight, the state of Utah executed a man for committing murder.  He'll be one of many this year I expect, although we don't see as...

When I was in college about 20 years ago, I thought it would be great to graduate, and then teach in a smaller community somewhere in the...

I wear glasses for reading – can’t see anything close up. My absolute favorite person in the history of the world is my maternal Gra...

Arizona has been under intense criticism for its new law on illegal immigrants.  Was this law racially motivated?  I don't know.  I can...