Hello! I'm Gary
My column is called My Cave My View and has absolutely nothing to do with caving. Full Articles on San Juan RecordLink to RedRock92.com Radio StationTaking on the World, One Article at a Time
Experience: I have been a writer for over thirty years. I published a book called “I Couldn’t Make This Up”. I have worked for the government, private industry, and owned my own business and taught at a small college. I have four kids, 13 grandkids, and enough scars to know pain is real but love can prevail. Yes, I have won several awards, but my readers are the best and final judge. When my readers laugh or cry, I know that I connected with one other person and that has kept me trying to perfect my craft and tell stories in ways that move people.
Purpose of Web Site: To share my writing with people that might need to chuckle at life’s experiences, need some inspiration, or share some joy and pain. I am a firm believer that we are in this together. Just sharing a laugh or a shedding a few tears together is enough to help me through another day. Some stories are exactly as I write them, I have “interviewed” people and used their stories because I am old enough to now know that we all have a story. And it is important to share those stories for the collective good and sometimes for personal redemption. Of the hundreds of articles that I have written over the 20+ years readers have found their favorites perhaps because it resonated or was just timely; I will share these. I will high grade and include many of the articles that I liked, but not all of them. All my articles are available at the San Juan Record website.
About the Book:
Gary has used a Twain-like humor with a folksy small town snapshot of life to make us stop and reconsider our own life. He opens up with humor and tenderness that will bring laughter and tears from the same page as he paints pictures of the people, places, and activities that surround him. He and his dog Turbo, his too kind and loving wife, and four children are the innocents abroad on a raft made of love, pain, laughter, and hope that is fl oating the mighty Mississippi of life somewhere in the West.
From his experience raising kids, fi ghting cancer, running marathons his insights are like barbs on a fence that grab hold of you. Each section of the book contains small snippets of life and insights that make the reader pause to laugh at the character and themselves.
Recent Adventures
Grandpa Joe Teaches Me How to Poach
GRANDPA JOE TEACHES ME HOW TO POACH A DEER I was a young boy, about nine years old when my dad and my Uncle Cosme Chacon took me hunting up the mountain. The only problem was it was not hunting season. Some people would probably call that poaching, but in...
GRANDPA JOE IS BURIED
Jose Odeceo Torres was buried March 24, 2001. I talked at his funeral. But there is more to the story than his last days. There is more to his life than fighting cancer and suffering and dying a long slow death. Once he was a small boy, he grew to be a wild strong...
