Helena One hour countdown! Coffee making, Times scanned (congratulations for an excellent and hilarious piece, Emma, on the Blago trail getting it in the shorts!), packing underway, and with great excitement moving down the last items on the list, as we count the hours until Rock Creek and radio silence and entering another world. I …
Category: Personal Writings
Radio Silence in Rock Creek, Goodbye Glenn Beck!
Helena Driving across Wyoming and Montana is a homecoming as memories and mountains swallowed 50 feet of truck and trailer, family and friends, as we gulped in the view, cool dry air, and good company. At lunch we lived a highlight reel as old comrades and friends, Pat Sweeny of WORC (Western Organization of Resource …
A Hustle versus a Job
Denver For several years Local 100 represented buggy drivers in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Any tourist in the city has seen the mule driven buggies lined up in front of Jackson Square to give tours which are a mixture of fact, fiction, and raw personality from the drivers themselves. In meeting after meeting …