northbankfred.com/writings 99 stories of intrigue, adventure... and intrigue! Heartburn in the Heartland west meets midwest... midwest wins Idle Idyll rain, rain, go away! Somewhere Over the Rainbow movement without forethought is still movement Road Trip first time's the charm Roseville Story never get out of the boxcar Sense and Sensimilla home is where the heart was No Name Jive just faces & places Music to my Ears riding in e flat minor Paradise Found don't leave home without it Inside Looking In is this all there is? Pushin' the Cushions we don't need no stinking tickets! Iowa, my Iowa! so near and yet so far the Sixties experiences during that most defining decade Urine the Army Now! or how to stop worrying and love basic training Stranger in a Stranger Land a beeline to the beehive state Roleplay as Therapy the bay area is my oyster Riding in the Winter there are reasons for the seasons The Absence of Warmth how cool can that be? Why Am I Here? and why aren't I there? Early Autumn what's gone is gone The Way of the Land over, around, and through Sole Sacrifice the agony of da feet Are We There Yet? getting there is all the fun Yard Limits look before you leap Eastward Ho! the zen of trainriding maintenance The Salt of the Earth is the spice of life When Reality Isn't see me, touch me, feel me Hiatus in the Hinterlands this (3.2%) bud's for you! In the Realm of the Census divide and concur The Sounds of Silence in the key of see Branch Line Blues this medium didn't get the message Midnight in the Garden of Snow i am the walrus The Biggest Little Branch Line... ...in the World Life in the Slow Lane counting the ties on the Modoc Death and Texas which comes first? Coming into Los Angeleeze please return your packs to the forward position I Read, Therefore I Am books make the man Days of Wine and Rodents the uneventful events of waiting for a train Cathy's Story i dream the night fantastic Food for Thought you are what you've eaten Scents and Sensibilities I love the smell of brakeshoe smoke in the morning Alone Together cold steel for breakfast Watching the Nevada Channel my tv's bigger than your tv Oakland Musings there is a "there" there Go East, Young Man! looking for my roots in all the wrong places The Train-Time Continuum if it's tuesday this must be montana 40-milers Anonymous it's not how far you go, but how you go far Time Spent Well... ...is time well spent White Like Me trapped in suburbia My Domain Needs Surveying idle fingers point the way The Low Quark of MIT Boys intelligence is a state of mind The Winter of My Discontent the shortest distance between three points Some Things Are Interesting and some aren't Miles & Miles of Miles the smooth way to rough it My Own Private Utah I could get used to this Utah in a Nutshell in the land of the latter days Take Only Pictures... ...leave only empty wine bottles I, Me, Mine, and Yours? one is the loneliest number Oy Canada! take these huddled masses... please Behind Bars that's where mine was Suburban Cowboy smoke 'em if ya got 'em Milk Run motion is overrated... Pipe Dreams round and round we go When Everything Was New and things got old fast Modoc Memories going out the branch Riding the Möbius Line the beginning is never the end Don't Cry For Me Rancho Cucumonga my "you're a'peein' vacation" To Halve and to Have Not the unbearable lightness of starvation Outside Looking In voyages of voyeurism Checks and Balances nobody checking and fewer balancing The Beet Goes On the perception of deception Any Port in a Storm movement is overrated Roseville mon amour time is a state of mind The Elements of Style cardboard as a creative medium Routes, Rock, Reggae rock around the clock You Can't Always Get What You Want but i'm happy to settle for what i need The Gripes of Wrath what's so great about the central valley? The Mnemonic Plague one man's roygbiv is another man's vibgyor In the Stall of the Mountain King the world is my urinal Leave it to Bieber TV was never like this Knowledge is Good making sense of it is better The Snow Cave there's snow place like home Seasonal Greetings yule get there when you get there On understanding the movements of flies and how that relates to trains Moments Reborn and hopefully recycled The Neutering of America it is what it is Rhymes with Orange my mind is an open book Under the Bridge out of sight... out of mind Postcards from the front 1,000 words with the click of a shutter Northwestern Pacific University an institute of tired learning Flights of Fancy around and around we go By Train to the Canyon vacationing on the cheap My Weirdest Ride riding 'em like you find 'em the Firth of Fifth adrift in a draft No hell below us above us only sky Alimentary, My Dear Watson! meals on wheels Deserted in the Desert in sand we trust Memories of Motion it's the thought that counts never refuse an invitation... ...never resist the unfamiliar