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More on sun exposure and cancer risk, ways to prevent and a personal story of cure
Malignant melanoma can be very aggressive, traveling fast to other places in the body, but when the notion arose that the condition was a totally incurable one recently, Andrea Marks of TruckerNation took some exception — she’s been cancer-free for quite some time, following a 2007 initial diagnosis….
July 17, 2019
Channel 19
Watermelon Slim tour dates, and a special guest in Indiana Feb. 2
Overdrive’s own “Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer joins Slim at the Feb. 2 performance. Also: The long and short on former owner-op and “In the Driver’s Seat” trucking-memoir author Marc Mayfield’s new work of page-turning detective fiction, “On Grove Street.”
January 14, 2019
Business
Arnold and the 2,000-year-old pygmy warrior, Part 2
Wendy’s annual Halloween fiction continues after Part 1, in which Arnold, haunted by the ancient pygmy warrior of the title, accidentally kills a love interest’s Maine Coon cat, named Monkey, for which its owner, Leslie, continues to look, expecting it to show up eventually …
October 29, 2017
Business
Halloween fiction: Arnold and the 2,000-year-old pygmy warrior, part 1
In what is something of annual tradition, Wendy’s tale of fright and uncanny horror, leading into Halloween. Arnold wakes up in a strange place, still unable to shake the freaky spear-wielding … something that’s been following him …
October 27, 2017
Life
‘The Backhaul’ — excerpting Fred Afflerbach’s ‘The Bison & the Butterfly’ novel
This excerpt from Fred Afflerbach’s new “The Bison & the Butterfly” comes from the beginning of the second big section of the book, “The Backhaul,” following 70-year-old small fleet owner-operator Ubi Sunt and his teenage grandson, Jeremy, across their trek from Texas toward Jeremy’s home in Philadelphia.
February 24, 2017
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Out now: ‘The Bison & the Butterfly’ — rollicking sequel to former owner-operator Fred Afflerbach’s ‘Roll On’ novel
A road novel of the classic sort, the new book builds on the foundations laid by its predecessor — Afflerbach’s empathic, often hilarious, moving depiction of two generations of men coming back together through lived experience after separation and loss is a master turn in the literary arts.
February 23, 2017
Business
Certified Air: The Lollipop Diaries
Wendy resumes the “Certified Air” fiction series with the tale of how Emily Larson became Esmerelda Lollipop in Certified Air … “Like the half-chips, ICE unit phasing was done quickly, and mistakes were made. Esmerelda Lollipop was one of those mistakes….”
November 25, 2016
Business
Certified air, finale
A Half-Chip’s remnants of humanity revealed. There’s hope yet for trucker LaRonda and her human and animal brethren beyond Certified Air …
November 1, 2016
Business
Certified air, part 2
Part 2 in Wendy Parker’s annual Halloween fiction sees the zombie apocalypse’s version of a scale house visited upon LaRonda Pettibone and her tractor, business and life … and the zombie at the wheel, of course.
October 31, 2016
Business
Certified air, part 1
Wendy’s annual Halloween fiction begins. LaRonda finds a Zombie codriver: “Enforcement chow kept them from decomposing any further, and she’d found Dash pretty fresh. He was wandering aimlessly at the Last Stand Fuel Stop in the Peterbilt show truck graveyard. …”
October 28, 2016
Business
Confessions of a two-timing writer
Wendy asks for forgiveness for fiction: “I’ll make it up by continuing to report the real-life road weird, and promise to never intertwine the two — unless, of course, I’m telling one of my filthy lies.”
August 12, 2016
Life
The Passenger: Part 2
Wendy Parker’s Halloween fiction concludes as flatbedder Rupert, rear-ended by Cuss, a killer with a dead body in the car that Rupert has only had a suspicion of, takes matters into his own hands…
October 30, 2015
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