When we went to China to teach for a year Mari came home early because her visa was a vacation one. So, I talked one of my students to travel with me by train to the place where China, Mongolia, and Russia met. He had taken “Sky” as his English name. which a quickly turned…

MY TEENAGE YEARS AT THE “SNAKE RANCH” When Dale my uncle and I were in Junior High School we discovered and made regular visits a pool hall called “Olympic Billiards” but known to all us kids as the “Snake Ranch”. Dale was 16 and was allowed to play pool there, and I too got to…