Snowbrush

I have often thought that I would like to have a home altar, but two things work against it. One is that I have never been able to clarify w...

If your idea of a good time is dropping a roll of toilet paper down the john and repeatedly trying to flush it, then you should just love na...

I took two Demerol tablets and went to church today, my arm in its sling and the sling under Walt’s extra large pile jacket. My midriff insi...

He’s dead, he’s dead, Hooray, hooray; His surgeon killed him yesterday, But his life insurance will quickly pay, And with his doc I’ll gladl...

Mark (that would be my surgeon) takes his hardest cases first, and I’m first. I have to check-in at 6:00 a.m. He will remove a bursa, chisel...

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...