Christmas Parody Letter 2025
Dear ______, Merry Christmas to everyone the land and world over! I'm as happy as Ebenezer Scrooge after the Ghost of Christmas future scared the hell out of him & saved his ass from a bitter end. Eat of the yuletide goose. With turkey trimmings with chipiolates. Cherish the gift that gives over the centuries like when Charles Dickens lit up in his London home and said, "They're (Christmas trees) from Germany. Maybe, it'll catch on." Well, I just finished another semester of
Dad
Dad By Jeff Guy Driving down dirt and gravel. Smoothed out by the maintenance crew. Daughter, Kenzie, oblivious to it all, her mind in her ear phones. Some sounds I hadn’t heard, I’m guessing. As for me? It was the old man’s town for all those years. He knew where the bodies were buried. I was driving down one of the gravel roads of the graveyard, clueless as I watched for them, thinking, perhaps, they hadn’t arrived. I'd been at the spot before, but man, I'm no human map, I'
Ozzy, youth, and mortality
By Jeff Guy It was about 1:30 p.m., a Tuesday. I pulled into the Quick Trip convenience store at Douglas and Washington streets in downtown Wichita. I pulled in to buy a Sprite. Just after I parked, I heard MJ, the afternoon DJ on the classic rock station, say, “We have sad news from across the pond.” Shit , I thought. What’s Trump done now ? Unfortunately, everything that fake-tanned snollygoster says or does affects the U.S.,U.K. and the rest of the world. Then, I thought,
Jimmy Carter
By Jeff Guy President Jimmy Carter I was sitting back in my car before leaving Wichita early Sunday afternoon. I sent texts to my kids,...
Christmas Parody Letter 2024
Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere, leave you for dead? Dear ________,...
My girl at 19
A sticky spring morning, 2011. I’m living with my family in Rusty Water, Kan. My kids will live out their K-12 academic careers out here,...
Christmas Parody Letter 2023
Dear _______, Merry Christmas wherever you are! Let’s hope there’s snow & hearts aglow & the yuletide is gay. I’m all for happiness....
History and Me
By Jeff Guy To Dr. Jay Price Hi, I'm J. Guy & that's all you need to know. Nobody can change that. Let's say I want admission into a program that deals with history. Let's say I have to write a piece about what history means to me, much like when I was taking Driver's Ed from Misters Calvert & Bennett in Jett, Kan. in the '80s and I wrote an essay entitled, "What Driving Means to Me." Make a statement, say. What can I say? Talking to fellow historians is better than chocolate
Church of St. J. Guy
You’ve blown it all sky high by telling me a lie And my calling was thus…an angel of the LORD rode up to me on a flaming pie and exhorted...
Everly loving
"All I Have to Do is Dream" -- The Everly Brothers Hi, Jeff, here and I was. Midnight a’ risin’. Keyed up, I guess ‘cuz it’s the weekend....
