Eric has a new book of short stories called Name of the Game that will soon be available on the web at Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.  It is presently available only at http://www.lulu.com.  Please give it a look.  http://www.ericwilder.com

Picture of cousin Chris taken on a recent trip to Edmond.  Chris is also an author and lives in College Station, Texas.

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Here is a picture of a midnight tree critter taken a few nights ago.

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Hello from Vivian.  I am happy to report that nothing much has changed.  As one of the pictures shows, you can still drive up to a drive-through window and order a vodka tonic, bourbon and water or slippery nipple to go.  The other pics are of Jeems Bayou.  http://www.ericwilder.com

   

Today is the 20^th anniversary of the Edmond Post Office Massacre, the first such post office shooting and the event that helped coined the phrase “going postal.”  I remember the event well, returning to Cape Cod on a ferry from Martha’s Vineyard when I heard the news.

 

Even today, little is known about the shooter, Patrick Henry Sherrill.  The news 20 years ago was that he was a Vietnam vet, driven crazy by his service in the war.  This proved untrue, but Vietnam vets were suspected of almost every heinous unexplained crime 20 years ago.

 

Sherill entered the Edmond Post Office around 7 am on the 20^th of August, 1986, locked the doors behind him and preceded to execute 14 fellow workers and wound 6 more before supposedly committing suicide.  Supposedly, you ask?  His body was removed by ambulance and there is no record of autopsy or burial.

 

What is the mystery of Patrick Henry Sherrill?  Perhaps we will never know.

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 Here’s another picture of Jeem’s Bayou taken late last year.  http://www.ericwilder.com 

According to The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City’s newspaper, a Garvin County earthquake registered 2.9 early Wednesday.  Information provided by the Oklahoma Geological Survey indicated it was one of four earthquakes that occurred during a 6 day period.  Many earthquakes occur in Oklahoma every year, most of a magnitude far less than in places like California, or along the so-called ring of fire that encircles the globe.

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Oklahoma, like much of the rest of the country, is undergoing a severe heat wave.  Like the rest of the country, my moonflowers are suffering.  A few, however, have perservered.  Here are a few pics of my only moonflowers so far this year.  We must remember that moonflowers are magic.  http://www.ericwilder.com