Snowbrush

I cursed God when I was twelve. I was delivering newspapers on my bicycle, and I remember the exact spot where it happened. By this time in ...

Peggy fears being dead because she doesn’t know what awaits. I don’t fear being dead because I envision death as an everlasting sleep. There...

Here is my account of how things have played out current to yesterday. Most of it is actually true. Early in 2006, an orthopedic surgeon ope...

My neurologist called yesterday to say that he ordered the CAT scan because my fifth vertebra “didn’t look right” on the MRI. It looked no b...

I told Peggy in May that I was so pessimistic about stocks that it was all I could do to stay in the market. She said that maybe I shouldn’t...

O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue To drown the throat of war! - When the senses Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness, Who ca...

I had my MRI night before last. The neurologist’s office called at 8:00 this morning to say that he had ordered a CAT scan, and that the CAT...

My week. Monday : surgeon. Tuesday : neurologist, acupuncturist, and hand rehabilitation therapist. Wednesday : MRI. Thursday : acupuncturis...

I started Lexapro a week ago. My primary care doc gave me a sample back in March, but I hate taking that kind of thing except as a last reso...

It’s a chilly Labor Day, too soon to start the furnace, but too cold to be comfortable without it. I am wearing both a sweater and a light j...

The best times to go to the woods are in late spring and early summer when the most flowers are in bloom, and in mid to late summer when the...

(This entry contains slang sexual references.) Mark and I got together a lot until we both moved to other parts of the country, and didn’t s...

Today's rants. Littering …is an ironic activity. I would have thought that people who litter are neat-freaks who can’t stand to carry tr...

My Mississippi trip was more like a family reunion interrupted by a funeral than a funeral accompanied by a family reunion. I saw some peopl...

Peggy’s mother died last night. During the years that I dealt with people in crisis—as a funeral director, ambulance driver, phlebotomist, r...

The judge reduced our tickets from $257 (each) to $65. At that rate, the city didn’t make any money, and the cop would have done society mor...

I just came from a meeting of the Wimawhala Encampment, which is a lodge that I joined last winter because it is dying. There are six of us,...

Peggy and I got simultaneous traffic tickets last week for running the same stop sign on our bikes. All we could figure was that the cops we...

Peggy’s mother is dying. She is sometimes rational for brief periods during the day, but at night she forgets where she is and who her famil...