Snowbrush

Twice lately, in my dreams, I created friends who I knew would disappear when I awakened. Each time, I held them tightly and said, “You are ...

Oscar Schlegel, one of my Masonic brothers, asked me to take him to the barbershop yesterday. I often offer to do things for people but am s...

I just got the results from my MRI. There were some areas where bone is scraping bone and other areas where bone is almost scraping bone. Th...

Back home. I couldn’t sleep last night for sharp pains radiating down the outside of my leg. If avoiding hikes would enable my knee to heal ...

We climbed Grasshopper Mtn (5,642 feet) today, or at least Peggy did. Within 150 vertical feet of the top, the going became so rough that I ...

We camped where the sun would hit the van early. My coffee brewed, we drove to the Sardine Butte (5,214 feet) trailhead. The road was not on...

Peggy and I were the first people to drive to the Indian Ridge (5,405 feet) trailhead this year, as evidenced by the rocks we had to move an...

Peggy and I were the first people to drive to the Indian Ridge (5,405 feet) trailhead this year, as evidenced by the rocks we had to move an...

The oldest earth rocks are 4.2 billion years old; the piece of Oregon andesite on my desk is 40 million. How old is that in human terms? We ...

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...