Could I Get One More To Go?

By FrancisCULTURE, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

(Special thanks to Joe York, and the short film “Gus”,  for the image.) One Saturday morning in mid-April, my wife joined our son and me for one of our periodic bike trips from the house in Forest Park to Downtown and back. Along the way, we visited several of the places we often stop: Sloss … Read More

A R-eel Fish Story

By FrancisUncategorized

The following article was originally printed September 3, 2009 in the Sea Breeze News—very possibly the wittiest small-town newspaper in the known universe. Two weeks ago a group of four men, Steve Hoyland Jr. with friends Bruce, Ken and Erik, set off on an overnight offshore fishing trip. They left at noon on a Tuesday … Read More