Most intelligent people read obituaries.  Fess up?  Aren’t we all a bit curious about people’s  lives and how they led them?  Isn’t there a bit of gossip or Yenta in all of us?

The life journeys of many people are incredible; others more mundane. Some obi...

OR WHY DON'T YOU TAKE A STROLL ON A LONG PIER

It wasn't like this the day we paid our visit

Guest: A person or persons who patronizes a hotel, restaurant etc., for what it provides. A Guest: someone, provided for or done for.  One who receives the hospitality of a hotel...

I WAS vacating a bar stool on October 11.  The 49ers had been trounced  45-10 by the Atlanta Falcons. the third-worst home defeat in franchise history. But I digress…

The bar emptied quickly. I wanted to empty too, but my friend Marty A. grabbed my sleeve… “Tuck, l...

A group of ukulele, hula and genuinely good time people are planning  a trip to the  Kihie Surf Side Resort on the island of Maui starting Oct 1st 2020.   But like so many moments in life there’s always some clown who feels compelled to take over the festivities making...

PEOPLE - PLACES AND THINGS BY TUCK 

People, places and things I've sketched over the years

In many schools and for many teachers, Friday is ‘test’ day.  Subsequently, many students considered Friday the first day of  a “3-day-weekend-day’. Still, year after year the Chemistry Prof whips out a test and so do the English, Algebra and Biology teachers....

RAPPELLING

My brother and his wife, D’Anne, live by the adage, “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”  So we went to Utah.

We received an invitation to D’Anne’s fourth “fiftieth” birthday party. We were promised horse back riding, golf for me, whi...

WELCOME TO MORNING GLORY ARCH WHERE THE ONLY WAY DOWN .

. . . IS DOWN

We paraded out into the light, barely fifty-feet across the floor of a box canyon, until we reached the rim of a cliff. Un-lemming like we paused at the edge and  stared down. It was like standing on...

People, Places and Things I've sketched over the year.