Having lived here in Nutjob Hills for as long as I have I’ve gotten used to some of the strangest things. Anything from door to door salesmen knocking on my door at 4:30 am selling wrinkle cream to the kid down the block who will gladly offer to cut your lawn for $2 an hour [...]
It’s funny how language and the meanings of words can change. One example is the word “Fathead”. When I was a kid that word referred to somebody that wasn’t quite all there as in they were so much of a fathead that they would need cholesterol treatments injected directly into their brain because of the [...]
It’s occurred to me recently that most of the stories that I write about the good but often strange denizens of a place that I call Nutjob Hills tend to paint these folks in a somewhat unfavorable light and that’s not even close to fair. There are just as many success stories in Nutjob Hills [...]
One of the local residents is something of a collector, which in and of itself isn’t that remarkable, even in Nutjob Hills there are quite a number of collectors. Of course, some of the local collectors tend to focus on some uncommon things to collect. This guy is one such example. He collects television sets. [...]
In the real, “normal” world and Entrepreneur is someone that organizes business ventures and assumes the financial risk for it. Here in Nutjob Hills that definition does not always apply. A good example is the story of a man that came to me wanting to talk about a way that I could improve the profits [...]