Shelly Shively and I are twins, but not just any twins. We’re a rare variety called “mirror twins” a subset of identical twins. As kids, we’d lose the same tooth on the same day, but on the opposite side. We… Continue Reading
In a box somewhere in one of my closets is a photo of two white cribs tied together with big bows: one for newborn me, the other for newborn twin Shelly. So the story goes, after we identical infants arrived… Continue Reading
I trace my dislike of carnivals and fairs to a terrifying childhood experience on the Zipper at the Shasta District Fair. As the Zipper flipped, spun and plunged, my skinny twin began to slip beneath our lap bar. Soon, she… Continue Reading
Dear President Obama,
Humbly submitted, here is my plan for dealing with the domestic terrorists/performance artists who are occupying—under the threat of violence—a bird sanctuary somewhere in the vicinity of Bumhump, Oregon. Continue Reading
It was 1994 the first time my kids and I went camping at Patrick’s Point State Park in Trinidad. It was a significant year. I’d graduated from college – 20 years after high school – and I’d bought a house.… Continue Reading
My newish iPhone 6 was nowhere to be found Monday morning, so I fired up the “Find my iPhone” app on my iPad. The phone was located about three-fourths of a mile from our house in Sunset Terrace at the… Continue Reading
When you think about it, we’re all just a bunch of molecules flowing through a bunch of other molecules that occasionally congeal in an ectoplasmic singularity we wistfully call reality. Which is why I try not to think about it,… Continue Reading
Since my first/last hair post, I worked up the courage to follow many of your suggestions. I got a pixie cut. Here’s a photo, in case you missed it. No color was added or removed. The colors you see are… Continue Reading
Phil Fountain is a cartoonist, writer and occasional bed-wetter based in the far reaches of Northern Californey. A News Cafe, founded in Shasta County by Redding, CA journalist Doni Chamberlain, is the place for people craving local Northern California news,… Continue Reading Continue Reading
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