Tommy Wayne Kramer

1 week ago | ukiahdailyjournal.com | Tommy Wayne Kramer

Memory is a funny thing for people. Especially old people. Or not funny. It’s not at all funny for me, not that I’m old. But we hear people (I hear people, or at least voices) all the time (some of the time) saying their short-term memory is bad and getting worse.

2 weeks ago | ukiahdailyjournal.com | Tommy Wayne Kramer

A PLAY IN ONE ACT Cast of Characters:DAVE  EYSTER- Mendocino County District AttorneyBUNNY-  Dave’s invisible childhood friendBUNNY:  Dave? Dave? Dave it’s me. Dave! Dave wake up!DAVE:  Huh? Whaa? Dave’s not here. B:  No Dave, you’re Dave. You’re here. Dave it’s me, Bunny. Dave!  Wake up!  It’s your imaginary friend Bunny!D:  Dave’s not here. He’s not taking calls and I’m not returning messages. Dave’s not me anymore.

2 weeks ago | theava.com | Tommy Wayne Kramer

There’s a fresh breeze in the air with mild gusts cleansing America of rot and decay from years of progressive ideology’s stranglehold on a civilized, well-governed republic. We shall survive. Our ill-considered lurch into DEI-land has all but been reversed and I’ve heard no liberals whining about it. The extremely woke Disney folk have quit putting trigger warnings on old cartoons, and the media have not objected.

3 weeks ago | ukiahdailyjournal.com | Tommy Wayne Kramer

Is every town overrun with golfers the way Ukiah is? Is there any other group that seems to be everywhere all at once the way local golfers are? If there isn’t a weekend golf tournament starting tomorrow it means there will be two weekend tournaments starting Friday. A weekend of golf brings them rolling in from as far away as Lake County. Heaven help us. And if they aren’t out destroying their golf lawn you’ll find them having a banquet where they hand each other trophies. And all this for what?

3 weeks ago | theava.com | Tommy Wayne Kramer

Now if you ask me, there isn’t a guy more loving and supportive of his dear wife than I am of the gal I call Trophy. You could ask her opinion, but at the moment she’s out running errands or whatever. Just this morning I said “Darlin’ why should we invest all our money in a new washing machine when there’s a laundromat just down the road a piece and we can do our clothes there, just like back in college?”See, in the short term we save money, and in the long run we’re all dead anyway, right?