Snowbrush

I’m trying to tie up loose ends before my operation next week. Yesterday, I spent four hours installing a recessed light in the laundry room...

I worked flooring the attic today. My left elbow never healed from a fall in 2003, and has increasingly come to limit how much I can crawl. ...

I just finished the first editing of my journal for 2003. The text came to 151 pages and the editing to thirty hours. I used to do three or ...

The local sewage plant flooded this week, making it necessary to dump raw sewage into the Willamette. All of the major rivers—and most of th...

I purchased a pair of $80 mitts today. It was a painful sum to spend, but Raynaud’s Disease has so affected my hands that the least chill pu...

Oh, but the tedium of winter. Another month, and spring will come; another three months, and the worst of the rains will be over. Already th...

Peggy and I climbed Tire Mountain today where, after eating, I had a terrible spasm in my lower back. After I was able to stop cursing and w...

The Supreme Court’s decisions regarding displays of the Ten Commandments was extensively covered this week. The public reacts to symbolism l...

The Supreme Court ruled last week that local governments can seize people’s homes and businesses and turn the property over to private devel...

I wince under the irony of the fact that I consider most people so vapid that I can scarcely tolerate them, yet I want them to enjoy their t...

My Odd Fellow’s lodge secretary called today to ask if I would be willing to take his job. The irony of most organizations is that, if you a...

The ophthalmologist said I am in the clear. My eye and the top of my head still hurts, but not terribly much. I have been off Zoloft for two...

I served my thirty minutes on jury duty today, the defendant deciding at the last moment that he wanted a trial by judge. I left city hall a...

Shingles information from the FDA:. People who have had chickenpox (varicella zoster) in their youth can develop shingles (herpes zoster) in...

We just took a three-day camping trip to the Kalapooyas where we would have hiked some new trails had snow not blocked the road at 5,000 fee...

The radio played Tina Turner today, and I remembered the month I spent in a Richmond, Virginia, commune at which I was the only straight mal...

I took a hard fall in a parking lot while running with the dogs last night. My elbows took much of the impact, but my upper abdomen still fe...

I broke my coffee carafe this week, and spent a couple of distraught days going over my options. I finally narrowed the field to two: buy a ...

I saw a clerk in Dari-Mart this week who I took for a goddess. Her image has plagued me ever since, but she is no more than twenty while I a...

My body jerks when I sleep. Last night, my jerkiness entered a dream. In the dream, I was at Jackie’s house for dinner and was being introdu...