Steve Wardrum:  

OK, I'll try, but I communicate more freely in images. (You have to check out my recent artwork in my photos.) It seems to me that when I try to use words to tell my stories, the orignal intended meaning often gets twisted in word play, mine or yours. Here is a short story for any who'd like one. There was once a person known to a few of you, who was youthful, jovial, and full of himself. He spent almost all his time just having fun and trying to make others laugh. He got even more cocky after picking up a wife, a secondary teaching certificate, and a contract to teach. His career began in a small Nebraska town where he fell in love with all the public school youth. The times were "the Dickens," as in best-of-and. All through the fall, there was no hint of the real road ahead. President Johnson's promise not to run inferred a new direction away from the violent war and the need to draft the young men in th...Expand for more