Snowbrush

I attended a Master Mason degree last night. The candidate fainted twice (he hadn’t eaten much that day), which caused the degree to last so...

I little enjoyed the annual meeting of the IOOF Grand Lodge of Oregon, but my home lodge votes to send me from time to time, and I feel comp...

Saturday, I went to the Natural History Museum for I.D. day. I showed a boxful of rocks to two geologists, and was confounded by their inabi...

I dreamed last night that I had just awakened from a nightmare. Later, I awakened from dreaming that I had awakened. This wasn’t my first su...

I helped with IOOF degree work at Junction City last week where I again saw Ed, the black man of whom I am fond. As fifteen of us dressed fo...

Peggy and I hiked up 4,081-foot HeHe Mountain (an Indian word for “home of good spirits”) this weekend and might have scrambled up Symbol Ro...

People are generally confused about the levels and organizations within Masonry. My father, for example, thought that an uncle who was a 32n...

I was the doorman for a funeral at lodge this week. When various people began showing up with flowers, I assumed they were for the funeral. ...

I went to the library for more books on mathematics today, and was annoyed to find someone standing in front of my section. He was thirtyis...

I returned to the surgeon today for a checkup. When he advised another surgery, I did what any reasonable person would have done: I stabbed ...

Some comments regarding the appearance Peggy and I made in the newspaper. “I was looking at the paper when I thought to myself, ‘I know thos...

My Masonic lodge visited the Junction City lodge this week. I sat beside Brother Belvin Terry who is dying from prostate cancer. He told thi...

An appliance repairman called and woke us up this morning despite being asked twice to call later in the day. When Peggy complained, he said...

I walked over to the gem show at the fairgrounds today, but was only tempted by two items. One was a ring that was inscribed Om Mani Padme H...

We had 47 at the lodge installation last night, one of them black. Ed is only the fourth black person I have known in Oregon, and the only b...

A newspaper photographer came out today and took pictures of Peggy and me walking up and down the sidewalk. I had written to the Lane County...

Zula died last night, alone in her apartment. I had the oddest feeling when I got the call this morning because, until this week, I never sp...

I visited Zula Kickbusch again today. She was less alert than on Sunday, and remembered nothing of my previous visit except that I was there...

I attended my Masonic lodge tonight for the second time in nine years. I didn’t recognize anyone, but one person remembered me. If he had no...

Today, I visited Zula Kickbusch, a 90-year old lodge sister who is dying. She was alert, cheerful, and under no delusion that she will survi...