Snowbrush

I struggle to make doctors see me as a person because my health is a very personal matter and because, if they see me as a person, they will...

I went to church today. No, I am not a Christian—I don’t even have an unreservedly high opinion of Jesus—but I enjoy studying religion. I al...

I was telling my neighbor, Ellie, and her fourteen-year-old son, Josh, about my upcoming surgery. Ellie said that Josh had to do a certain n...

I am grateful for the kind words that my last post elicited. Your advice was valuable in that it told me of your caring, and because it conf...

I mowed today for the first time this year. I’ll mow once more before having shoulder surgery in late March; then I won’t be able to mow for...

We got the Camry. “Why?” Because I told Peggy I would go along with whatever she wanted, and she said she wanted the car enough to ignore th...

Car salesmen assume they can get away with being outrageously rude in their efforts to sell you a car, any car, even if it’s nothing like th...

There are days—this is one—when I feel terribly guilty for not doing something (i.e. work), yet the guilt isn't sufficient to inspire ac...

I’m having my 5:00 p.m. vodka, and it feels SO good on my sore throat. Along with from coming down with a cold yesterday, my right shoulder ...

Peggy and Walt slid off an icy highway Saturday and totaled his 4-Runner. It was their third ski-related accident, and Walt was driving each...

Habaneros don’t keep well, so stores are often out. When Market of Choice didn’t have any today, I asked the produce manager about something...

I sometimes express a desire to take on Peggy’s health problems. Peggy never expresses a desire to take on my health problems. I don’t inter...

Saving the country seems like an awfully big job to lay at the feet of one man, but maybe that’s just how things work. Take the civil righ...

I don’t get on well with tolerant people. Don’t ask me why, but the more tolerant someone is, the less he is able to tolerate me. Likewise w...

I bore even myself with my health updates, yet of those who have read my preceding medical adventures, some might want the latest. My fellow...

I wrote the following for my new orthopedist. He is the fourth I have seen. So, why is this worth putting in my blog? Because it illustrates...

If you want to know what a smart dog looks like, take a look at this (I mean the photo, not the word this ). Now, I’m not one of those dog ...

Peggy had an esophageal dilation and biopsy on New Years Eve. Afterwards, she was as helpless as a baby, and I was the lion at her gate. Eve...

Some thoughts on (almost) turning sixty (on March 1). If you say to your friend when you’re 29, “I’m screwed-up because my parents were scre...