Green As A Dollar

Hazardous Duty Julie Buffaloe-Yoder . Gator Jonson is the best worker we’ve ever had.  Unlike the younger guys, he doesn’t whine about physical labor.  Sometimes he works inside underground pipes.  Sometimes he hangs from ladders or operates backhoes.  Other times, he’s on the side of the road, shoveling diesel fuel spills. . Environmental cleanup is [...]

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Carolina Woman

My short story, Miss Fish Refuses To Evacuate, won the grand prize in the Carolina Woman 2010 writing contest.   Many thanks to the editor and publisher, Debra Simon, and her staff. . Carolina Woman is a North Carolina lifestyles magazine with a readership of 100,000 professional women in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill region and beyond.  [...]

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Success is Relative

One of these days, I won’t feel the need to add disclaimers.  For now, I’m trying to stay out of trouble.  This is not my mother or father.  It is fiction.  But “Cully Jean” is a very real woman.  I love her dearly. . Red and White Julie Buffaloe-Yoder . My sister is graduating today.  [...]

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Hanging On

Miss Fish Refuses To Evacuate Julie Buffaloe-Yoder . …..Miss Fish sits on the roof.  She is seventy-five-years old and hanging onto shingles.  The water is now above her windows.  It is hot, and the sun threatens to shine.  She wears a red bandana as a kerchief.  It flaps in the stiff afternoon breeze.  Her black [...]

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TWISTED SISTERS

For lack of a better term, I’m calling this one a short story. It’s really more of a sketch. Maybe a rant. I met this woman and her little girl this week, and I wonder what will happen to the girl in a few years. I’ve never seen a more miserable eight-year-old in my life. [...]

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Will The Circle Be Unbroken?

Hold on, Nellie. Here we go. I’ve been delaying this topic, because once I get started, it’s hard for me to stop. Last week, a lady stopped by my workplace with some pamphlets about environmental issues. That’s cool. I was born a tree hugger and a mud lover. But when I started reading the part [...]

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