Written By: Greg Williams Cowards, courage, intent, and the plea of Not Guilty by reason of insanity. Rudyard Kipling’s Mandalay includes the verse, “…an the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ‘crost the Bay…” This fiery bit of speechifying is repeated in part when in the film version of The Wizard of Oz, Bert Lahr (as the Cowardly Lion) says, “What makes…

Donavan and Kaycee Moss were headed home. Clear skies. Dry roads. Days before the big Labor Day Weekend. A driver in a pickup truck was turning west onto westbound Highway 50 from 114. Donavon and Kaycee (with Kaycee at the helm) were approaching Highway 114 ready to turn north. The…

Written By: Greg Williams This story should have started with the death of the 16-year-old stabbed in the face with a screwdriver in Louisiana. He died a few months after the attack. Try as I might I was unable to locate his name or his photo (intending to memorialize him…

Written By: Greg Williams I wrote perhaps the dumbest text message of my life today. Had it been intercepted by the teams occupying the black surveillance vans circling Rogue Manor West, I am certain those deciphering it would have convinced themselves of some important hidden messages contained within. Had someone…

Making lasting memories or making memories last? Written By: Greg Williams Distortions of memory are so common as to be the rule rather than the exception. You should challenge every eye-ball witness that testifies against you and confront any friend who reminds you of an incident you recall differently. …

Written By: Greg Williams Reader feedback. I got a lot of feedback from The storm is coming; do you have an umbrella? where I reminded each of you that, “you are largely responsible for your own safety this summer” and offering tips to stay safe. …

Written By: Greg Williams “Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed” -Linkin Park My Dad and I often argued about the definition of a hero. It was generally a one-sided fight. When I was young my only heroes were in books and on the playing fields. …

Written By: Greg Williams The ‘Do’ was a ‘Don’t’. I got a $16.00 haircut in Montrose, Colorado yesterday. $16.00. Prices have gone up considerably since I rode my bike to ‘Clip and Save’ in East Detroit. Back then they charged $4.00 USD for any style haircut (we used to joke…

MPEG isn’t just for photos. — Mom thought Brian was a realtor. My brother Brian visited from Detroit this week. While in town we went and visited my Mom. She thought he was a realtor come to appraise the house. …