Jeff Hammer

In the fall of 1989, my wife, two-year-old daughter, and I moved to Winnemucca, Nevada where Gayla and I secured teaching contracts in first...

Finally, this past weekend, my wife and I were able to leave town for a couple of days. As she works during the week,...

The destination escapes me now some fifty or so years later, but as my dad and I stepped out of our house on Smith...

As we were going through security on a recent Saturday morning at an ungodly early hour, the TSA guy at the Riverton airport asked...

I have a love/hate relationship with this time of year, and based on passing conversations I’ve had with my neighbors and others, I don't...

Savi Sharma is an Indian (from India) novelist. The title of one of her novels is Everyone Has a Story. In the book she...

When I want and need some fresh air, I usually, depending on the season and the weather, choose one of two activities: I either...

For whatever reason, as I sat down today to write this column, writer’s block seemed to cast its gloomy shadow down over me like...

The other day on the radio, I heard a line from Michael Scott, who was Steve Carell’s character on the television series “The Office,”...

I remember when not every college football team with an even record or better over the course of a fall season went to a...

It’s nice to have significant snow on the ground this early in the winter for a variety of reasons. The past several years have...

What’s in a name? Well, letters, of course…and words; but for me, the letters and words that make up names connotate memories.  When we consider...

Leaving Wyoming by way of commercial air travel is not easy, especially if one is interested in playing in and around salt water. It's...

Some things are meant to be forever. For example, a father’s love is a forever thing. However, some aspects of our lives were never...

During spring break in the year 1989, when other married couples were off visiting relatives or lounging on a beach in a warmer climate...

Even though these columns are labeled “opinion,” much more often than not they are really just observations, both young and old; meaning instances I...

I have mentioned in one of my previous columns that I am an amateur people watcher, a part time student of human behavior, which...

(Started on September 8.) What happened to our summer? It’s like I woke up this morning, and suddenly it’s September. The weather just doesn’t...

One day about fifteen years ago, a very bright young lady in my fifth grade classroom at what used to be North Elementary seemed...

With any overnight travel, whether it’s for business or pleasure or for whatever, one must have accommodations. Over the course of my lifetime, I...