Missing
A bit more than 25 years ago now I spent some time in Fargo ND working for America’s Most Wanted. The case in particular was a missing child named Jeanna […]
Author Archives: Tom DeVries
What a Long Strange Trip
In 1976 or so, Jackson Browne wrote about traveling in a tour charter, saying: We’ve got country and western on the bus, R & B We got disco in eight […]
Roger’s Gone
Roger Nelson was my best friend, in school, when I needed a friend the most. His folks were founders and stalwarts of the Winnetka Bible Church which my dad was […]
Chicago, August, 1968
(My daughter, who was not quite four years old at the time, asked me recently to talk about the 1968 Chicago convention for her children who are living thru this […]
Storm
It wasn’t exactly sunny yesterday afternoon when I went for a walk. But it was a nice break in the misty rain on a day when I’d been mostly at […]
Boys’ Club
It’s like a junior high school dance. Bunch of guys scuffing around, hanging at the edges, no girls. In the case here on the mountain, it’s a group of five male […]
The First Years
At it’s best, it looked like this with me as Ralphie. I wanted the BB gun too, but also my school, the coal furnace, the front yard, clothes… my childhood […]
