Snowbrush

If you discount the existence of a deity or the claim of an authoritarian government or institution, the decision is yours. At the moment, I...

“When I consider the brief span of my life, absorbed into the eternity before and after, the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed ...

...I got the following email from my friend, Christine, regarding my last post, and knew I would have to fire a final salvo. I will first sh...

I’m going to start off here with a bit of a disclaimer. I don’t believe in prayer—or in the supernatural for that matter—but many of you do,...

If your dog has a good life, you can take most of the credit. If you dog has a crummy life, you can take most of the blame. This makes it ha...

Jesus said that. Ted Kaczynski and John Allen Muhammad were two of the many who lived it for their own reasons and in their own ways. After ...

I am ashamed to admit that I regularly try to deceive myself into thinking that my species is more intelligent than I actually believe it to...

My two-hour surgery started yesterday morning at 8:00. The nerve block wore off last night at 1:00, so I took a sleeping pill and two Percoc...

I lost another follower today. Sometimes, I offend people because I don’t make myself clear; other times because I do. Causing offense is on...

Surgeons rarely kill people. They might screw them up, but they don’t normally leave them dead as a doornail on the operating table. Anesthe...

I have given but little time to blogs lately--my own or others--because I am preparing for shoulder surgery in December on the shoulder oppo...

Three days ago, I got an email from a follower (I’ll call her Jackie) who asked if I could think of a reason she shouldn’t kill herself. I w...

I was leaving the library when I saw her; I did a u-turn. She wore a short skirt with long stockings that had black and white horizontal str...