News of the passing of British showman Gerry Cottle of the Corona virus in January reminded me of seeing one of his shows in the UK, about 2000. Cottle was not born into the circus business, but loved it. He grudgingly went along with the …
When she was a girl, my mother (Dolores) lived on the family farm adjacent to the falls of the San Antonio River in a town called Falls City, which is about 60 miles downstream from the Alamo City. I grew up hearing a story of …
It had been a fairly uneventful summer for us since our early vacation in the San Juan islands. You may remember an earlier story about our neighbor Lydia, who put in a backyard pond and stocked it with koi. Naturally, the local raccoons thought this …
