Rivers Run Through Our History

That Was The Overwhelming Thing To Me, The Joy Of Carrying My Portable Typewriter To An Event And Trying To Describe It.

You Can Find Your Way Across This Country Using Burger Joint The Way A Navigatior Uses Stars....we Have Munched Bridge Burgers In The Shadow Of The Brooklyn Bridge And Cable Burgers Hard By The Golden Gate, Dixie Burgers In The Sunny South And Yankee Doodle Burgers In The North....we Had A Capitol Burger - Guess Where. And So Help Us, In The Inner Courtyard Of The Pentagon, A Penta Burger.

It Was So Much Fun To Have The Freedom To Wander America, With No Assignments. For 25 Or 30 Years I Never Had An Assignment. These Were All Stories I Wanted To Do Myself.

I Had A Little Insight Into Life That Most Kids Probably Didn't Have. My Mother Was A Schoolteacher, And My Father Was A Social Worker. Through His Eyes I Saw The Underside Of Society.

Most Of Those Old Settlers Told It Like It Was, Rough And Rocky. They Named Their Towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, And Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's A Tough Country. The Names Of Arizona Towns Tell You All You Need To Know.