Trina Machacek

Author and Columnist at The Ely Times

Author and Columnist at Lincoln County Record

Author and Columnist at Nevada Appeal

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Trina Machacek column, Easter eggs, faith and marketing

1 week ago | elkodaily.com | Trina Machacek

Not to generalize, because generally I find generalizing is just too, well, general. But! Yes, a generalized everyone’s got one “but.” Generally, everyone has a season of the year they wait for with all the anticipation of that first cool lick of a cherry popsicle on the back lawn on a July afternoon. Some will look at winter as the best time because of the skiing or snowboarding. Fall falls into many views due to the cool days, beauty of the changing seasons and hunting, of course.
Trina Machacek: Easter eggs?

1 week ago | nevadaappeal.com | Trina Machacek

Not to generalize, because generally I find generalizing is just too – well general. But! Yes, a generalized everyone’s got one “but.”Generally, everyone has a season of the year they wait for with all the anticipation of that first cool lick of a cherry popsicle on the back lawn on a July afternoon. Some will look at winter as the best time because of the skiing or snowboarding. Fall falls into many views due to the cool days, beauty of the changing seasons and hunting of course.
Trina Machacek: Tetherball and life

2 weeks ago | nevadaappeal.com | Trina Machacek

When kids were kids in most rural towns, there was gravel on the playgrounds, goat head stickers in the outfields of ball fields. And then if you were lucky? There was a tetherball set up beckoning you to give it a try. For me? Yes, I gave it a try over and over again… With my face! But. Yes, a cold, wet, stiff ball smack on a “but.” If you ever got to hit that thing, you had the feeling that you could now take on the world. I am getting ahead of myself though.
Trina Machacek: Tetherball as a metaphor for life

2 weeks ago | elkodaily.com | Trina Machacek

When kids were kids in most rural towns, there was gravel on the playgrounds and goat head stickers in the outfields of ball fields. And then if you were lucky, there was a tetherball set-up beckoning you to give it a try. For me? Yes, I gave it a try over and over again … with my face!But. Yes, a cold, wet, stiff ball smack on a “but.” If you ever got to hit that thing, you had the feeling that you could now take on the world. I am getting ahead of myself though.
Trina Machacek column, Search and find your 'thingy'

3 weeks ago | elkodaily.com | Trina Machacek

Hopefully, there is no time limit on how long you can take looking for something you either have lost or just desire to find in life. I have a friend, Robin, who has spent many years going whale watching off the coast of California without seeing so much as a spout. I have lost count of how many years she has been traveling from Central Nevada, up over the Sierras, down to Southern California to see the magnificent whales. Years.
Trina Machacek: My calendar is sticky notes on a counter

1 month ago | elkodaily.com | Trina Machacek

It’s amazing for me to see someone go to their phone and pull up a calendar with all their important upcoming events listed. All in order and readable and making sense. How do they get to be so responsible and organized? I am still using Post-It notes. I don’t even have them on my fridge. They are slapped on part of one of my kitchen counters. As I sit here at my table, I can see several of them. Blue, red, yellow, oh, and one shaped like a little hedgehog. I like those. Yes, I am that girl.
Trina Machacek: Mumbley Peg and another lost art

1 month ago | nevadaappeal.com | Trina Machacek

The tomboy in me learned to play Mumbley Peg before I learned how to play Jacks. A skill I pull out every so often because I like to throw knives at my friend’s feet. Oh boy! The way we played was we stood face to face and one at a time we threw a pocketknife at the other player’s foot. Getting it as close as you could. Then that person would have to put their foot over the spot where the knife landed. You then picked up the knife and threw it at your opponent’s foot.
Trina Machacek: The secret to a clean garage

1 month ago | nevadaappeal.com | Trina Machacek

I drove my truck inside my garage yesterday. Not an unusual event. I am lucky that I have more than one place to store stuff, so I can actually fit my truck into my garage. But! Yes, a stuffed to the rafter’s garage “but.” No matter how much “other” space I have, my garage still catches too much overflow. There is, for some unknown reason, an immense number of flies that gather and die in my garage. It has always been like that. There’s nothing dead in there.
Trina Machacek column, The secret to a clean garage

1 month ago | elkodaily.com | Trina Machacek

I drove my truck inside my garage yesterday. Not an unusual event. I am lucky that I have more than one place to store stuff, so I can actually fit my truck into my garage. But! Yes, a stuffed to the rafter’s garage “but.” No matter how much “other” space I have, my garage still catches too much overflow. There is, for some unknown reason, an immense number of flies that gather and die in my garage. It has always been like that. There’s nothing dead in there.
Trina Machacek: How casual are casual Fridays?

1 month ago | nevadaappeal.com | Trina Machacek

Where was casual Friday when I was working as the K-12 secretary at the school, in an office? Or for the phone company. I just saw a commercial where casual Friday was a free for all of clothing. Jammies to some pretty ratty sweatshirts were all acceptable workwear. It makes me wonder if President Trump ever has had a causal Friday. And what color tie would he wear? There are just some people who couldn’t pull off a casual anything. But.

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