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The Man Who Raised Me: The Inheritance
By Cliff PottsBay Bay City, Leyte, Philippines — July 16, 2026 This is a serialized installment from the autobiography of Cliff Potts. Advice He offered very little direct advice. One warning was never to join a peacetime army. He described it as “a bunch of Boy Scouts.” The other was shorter and more pointed: “Whatever you do, stay out of Texas.” He never explained the statement. He did…
The Man Who Raised Me: What Was Not Said
By Cliff PottsBay Bay City, Leyte, Philippines — July 9, 2026 This is a serialized installment from the autobiography of Cliff Potts. The Facts of Life He never gave me the talk. I learned what I needed to know from school and from friends. Once, I overheard him say that girls needed instruction about sex, but boys did not. When I asked him what VD was, he said, “It’s a disease you shouldn’t…
The Man Who Raised Me: Silence and Provision
By Cliff PottsBay Bay City, Leyte, Philippines — July 2, 2026 This is a serialized installment from the autobiography of Cliff Potts. Silence My father did not tell stories. Once, at the dinner table, I asked him what he could tell me about the Great Depression. He became serious and said, “You never want to go through one of those ever.” That was the entire answer. No detail. No memory…
The first mistake is to imagine the archive as a courtroom. A courtroom wants evidence neatly clipped, sworn in, labeled, dated, signed, and
The Man Who Raised Me: The Boy Before the Father
By Cliff PottsBay Bay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 25, 2026 This is a serialized installment from the autobiography of Cliff Potts. Eleven Years Old My father lost his father at eleven. That is where his story begins. An eleven-year-old boy in the middle of the Great Depression watches his father die. His mother did not work outside the home. That was conviction, identity, and doctrine…
Bakersfield: Fire and Departure
By Cliff PottsBay Bay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 18, 2026 This is a serialized installment from the autobiography of Cliff Potts. Halloween My birthday is October 28th. Halloween has always been close to it. One year, shortly after turning seven, my mother and sisters dressed me as a little girl for Halloween and took me through a neighborhood where adults commented on how cute I…
Bakersfield: Neighborhood and Culture
By Cliff PottsBay Bay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 11, 2026 This is a serialized installment from the autobiography of Cliff Potts. Catechism I once skipped catechism. Instead of going to class, I let myself into the babysitter’s house and sat drawing. The phone rang several times. I picked it up and set it down without speaking. Eventually it was determined that I was safe. The episode…
Mary Trump Book Resurfaces
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 10, 2026 — A 2020 political memoir by Mary L. Trump has reappeared in social media circulation in 2026, highlighting the continued relevance of a book that originally drew global attention during the first presidency of Donald J. Trump. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most…
