Well I’m back as special guest columnist. Yes, it’s Scarlett, the Cat. I’m not sure why I use that as my pseudonym. You take one look at me and you know I’m a cat. But given the circumstances under which I was born and raised, I’m not really certain of my last name so I…
Author: wahoo2727
I’m a practicing lawyer and wanna be humorist. I grew up in Christiansburg, Va and have lived most of my adult life in Clarksburg, WV. Most of my writings are what I like to call observational humor. I also love sports, particularly the Boston Red Sox and UVA. I bleed Wahoo Orange and Blue.
Snow Day
Snow day! What a glorious sound! Even now the words make me smile, fill me with a lift of excitement. Last week we had a beautiful snowfall in North Central West Virginia, enough to lead to cancelation of the local schools. It brought back great memories. It has been over 40 years since I last attended the schools in…
The Christmas Orange
I was in the grocery store the other day doing a little Christmas stocking up. I spied an item that must be seasonal – a bag of spectacularly colored apples – reds and greens – and brilliant oranges. I wasn’t used to seeing them packaged that way and I had to buy them. If nothing…
The Military Classic of the South (Thanksgivings Remembered)
Thanksgiving always brings back especially fond and warm memories of my early childhood. The time frame for these recollections is the period of my life from age five or six till the beginning of adolescence, when my parents apparently became either aliens or lepers, driving a need to distance myself from them. But from the…
Frankie Loria (50 years remembered)
Frank Paul Loria. I hope the name still resonates through the halls and annals of Virginia Tech football. I am sure it does. Frankie, as he was known in my current part of the world (as I will explain later), was a 2-time All-American safety at Tech in the mid-1960’s – he played during the autumns of…
Memories of Autumn Saturdays
I am writing this column very early on a chilly Saturday morning in early fall. It is that wonderful time of the year when the seasons change and the heat of summer is giving way to crisp autumn weather. Having lived most of my life in the mountains, or close by, I have had the…
Missing my Mate
(My wonderful wife and friend Joyce (subject to variations based on my various nicknames, “J” and “Sandy” and a few I can’t list) passed away on August, 23, 2018, after a long struggle with lewy body dementia. This is the obit I did then.) Joyce Bastin Fowler King passed away peacefully on August 23, 2018,…
Serious as a Heart Attack
(August 8 was the 3rd anniversary of my heart attack and August 10 was the 3rd anniversary of my triple bypass, performed by the wonderful and skilled heart group at WVU Hospital. The following is one of the columns I wrote back then to memorialize the experiences.) As I had warned, I don’t want to…
The Twilight Zone (Baseball 2020 style)
“It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call ‘The Twilight Zone’”. Intro to the U.S. television series that ran from October 1959 through June…
Being Belgian (or at least being married to one)
When I was in college, ethnic jokes were still around but waning in acceptability. I believe that intelligent folk knew these jokes were not intended to be offensive, but my generation decided that some change was required. It was the punchline that was funny, not the ethnicity attached to it, but we all had lots…
Bud-Hoo 