Author Archives: Jerry Schellhammer

I’m writing from the comfort of my home-office where I’ve been staying hidden from the people out there who may or may not be infectious spreaders of COVID-19. I had a cold that I just recently got over. I also am happy to report I have no fever, no dry, hacking cough and no shortness ofContinue reading “The Joys of COVID-19 Quarantine”

The road trip was because of a funeral of a family friend. She was 79 and lived a fulfilling life. Now I drove to a small town where I first met her over 52 years ago. We see things differently in the lens of time and here was no exception. Even though I had aContinue reading “A Funeral for a Friend”

It’s quite obvious, from where history stood that the media people and the government are using the same scare tactics used to alert us minions about certain unfounded bumps in the night, and the latest Corona virus is no different. We can go back as far as the 17th century when the hysteria of witchesContinue reading “Corona Scare Tactics”

My mother in law, Lillian is here. She arrived from Yakima yesterday and will leave with her common law husband, Tom. He’s a cowboy in the classic sense. The camper we bought is now home as of Friday night. Unfortunately we had to deal with issues that were never resolved. But, that is another issueContinue reading “Coming to Town”

I knew the moment I saw the news report that it wasn’t as the authorities were reporting. On January 26, 2016, Dr. John Marshall went for a jog along the banks of the Spokane River and seemingly disappeared until a day later when his body was discovered several miles downstream. Now the Washington Attorney General has steppedContinue reading “It’s A Mystery”

Well there I was sleeping when my wife crawled into bed next to me and asked, “You asleep?” “No,” I lied, figuring she had something to get off her chest. “My son got arrested. He’s in jail,” she told me in a matter-of-fact tone that told me how upset she was with her son. IContinue reading “Last Night”