1988,Bantam Audio - Cassette

 

 

 

 

 

This two-hour audio program features a collection of Tom's trademark short, witty pieces on small-town life, family life, and everyday experiences, all from the perspective of an ex-logger and resident of Homer, Alaska - which is just about as far as you can go "without turning around or running into a foreign language".

from Small Places

…One positive aspect of living in a small place is that we can adequately heat our home with a good conversation and a mood candle. If it does get a little stuffy, opening the door for fifteen seconds will give us a complete air exchange. The only problem is that the exchanged air is never quite as warm as the old, so we don’t do that very often and have a tendency to sometimes smell like what we had for dinner the night before.

All in all it’s not so bad, and like good Americans we sit fat and happy, and try not to think about it. It keeps us close and promotes togetherness, much in the same way prisoner-of-war camps do. Although I’m certain that keeping two prisoners in a cell the size of our house would be a violation of the Geneva Convention, we call it home and like everybody’s home, it’s almost always the best place to be.

 

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