Shelton-Mason County Journal - Dedicated to the citizens of Mason County, Washington since 1886

If you love to hate people who drop names to try to impress you, the following story might make your day.

But then again, dear friends and readers, after reading this bagatelle and taking whatever time you might require to consider the real reason I wrote it, maybe you will look more kindly upon my story and not hold it too much against me this merry go round. We'll see.

Here goes: I now personally associate myself with Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart and Al Capone.

I thought this surprising public declaration of mine was going to be much harder for me to type out. I must be getting bolde...