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Articles by Chiggers Stokes
When the heart weeps ......
Seeing Through, Chapter 11
By Chiggers Stokes • May 27, 2016 5:14 pm

What If…
On a recent visit to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, I asked my doctor to give me a probability statement on my chances of survival. The answer came back, “50 percent chance of ……

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Mt. Fitzroy
Seeing Through Chapter 6-Special to the Forks Forum-I...
By Chiggers Stokes • March 4, 2016 9:30 am

“Mas cervezas!” I called out, knocking over the half full bottle of beer still in front of me. Beer spilled across the table ……..

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The 65-year-old view through a skylight in the author's HOUSE FOR SALE!
True Color, Part 32
By Chiggers Stokes • December 11, 2015 6:17 pm

In conclusion of my story on alternative energy, I always have wanted to impart the advice I got from a lifelong do-it-yourselfer about harnessing gensets………

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The Countr*/Whidde* 30 years later. Note thickness of stove top.
True Color Part 17- Steam Driven IEDs
By Chiggers Stokes • February 19, 2015 5:47 pm

What Melvin King gave me in a converted water heater was a cheap and inexpensive way to heat our 800 square feet of living space; cook

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Darcy Stokes crashes wagon and escapes on Author's dog
Aliens and the Beast
By Chiggers Stokes • January 27, 2015 4:21 pm

Within the first two years of settling on Hemp Hill, I had moved my two plastic 50-gallon water drums up to our sleeping loft. This was the highest

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Darcy Stokes crashes wagon and escapes on Author's dog
Aliens and the Beast
By Chiggers Stokes • January 27, 2015 4:21 pm

Within the first two years of settling on Hemp Hill, I had moved my two plastic 50-gallon water drums up to our sleeping loft. This was the highest

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‘The Place is Burning Down!’
‘The Place is Burning Down!’
By Chiggers Stokes • January 15, 2015 2:41 pm

I have a high pressure 200-foot, 1-inch hose reel within 15 feet of my house. I have two fire extinguishers on every floor of my four-level home………..

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'The author explains to his bride his theory of drinking water and toxic waste.'
True Color Part 13-The Stupidest Person on Earth,...
By Chiggers Stokes • December 24, 2014 12:22 pm

The Stupidest Person on Earth, Can …
For those of you who have followed my sojourn from Brazil to a rundown farmhouse in Maryland, thank you for your audience.

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Shooting Great Falls on the Potomac.
True Color-Part 9
By Chiggers Stokes • October 24, 2014 6:46 pm

I had a great job, but no address. My general orders were to promote public safety and be on hand for cliff or water rescues. I walked all day around Great Falls and on the C & O Towpath.
For a while, I camped out and stayed with friends. The Park Service always is going on about crisp uniforms and I got written up a few times for looking like the homeless bum I was. I needed an address, but I couldn’t reconcile myself to going back to suburbia.

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A few months before again seeking work with the National Park Service
True Color-Part 6 Homeless in Seattle/Sleepless in Detroi
By Chiggers Stokes • April 11, 2014 12:25 pm

As I got close to finishing the tiny cabin on my sister’s farm near Corvallis, Oregon, family and common law tensions mounted. My sister and the father of her child were on the war path with one another. That path became a turnpike for hard feelings between everyone. Just a couple days after moving from the hayloft to my new little cabin, my sister asked me to leave.

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