Darrke Thoughts

adventures · kayaking

Get Ready BF picked up or rental kayaks at REI Friday night and we planned to head out first thing Saturday morning. We rented the Wilderness System T...

adventures · kayaking

We drove over to the coast just for fun, with no actual plan about what to “do” when we got there. Mostly we just wanted to get out of the house a...

memoir · ex-husbands

I suppose it all starts with your father, the man who teaches you what men are supposed to be. Mine was gone a lot: work travel, hobbies, watching tv ...

memoir · trucking

After a couple of weeks on the truck with Wayne, I had learned where all the gears were, and could go up even mountains without missing a gear. Wayne ...

memoir · trucking

The sound of the air conditioner blasting drowned out the roar of the engine and crooning of some country song on the radio. I was shivering in my coa...

memoir · ex-husbands · mother

Wayne accepted my proposal and got a loan from his employer to rent a U-Haul, He drove out from Salt Lake all the way out to Oregon and helped me pack...

memoir · ex-husbands

Wayne kissed me, slowly at first, then more passionately, more demanding. We ended up laying on the couch with him on top of me. I could feel a hard b...

fan fiction · ASOIAF

"I’ve been reading fan fiction for ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ since the end of season 7. It’s going to be along wait for season 8, or book 5. My...

experiments · typing · dvorak

"### Day 1 I decided to do something. I’m going to learn to type with the Dvorak keyboard layout. People say it’s easier and that they can type fa...