Snowbrush

Peggy sometimes offers subtle criticisms regarding the subjects I write about. For example, “Why the fuck don’t you ever write about somethi...

I could travel the world and never see anything more lovely than a sweet gum in the fall (do click on the photo). This raises the question o...

If it’s such a great thing to be a sheep, why do Christian schools always name their football teams after lions, Crusaders, and even bulldog...

For months, I’ve been reading every non-fiction book the library has about neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, and the Ku Klux Klan. Damn! You mus...

Good, I guess. Since no one would help facilitate, I spent hours creating a program all by myself, but the three people who previewed it th...

When Baxter succumbs to lung cancer—he coughed up blood for the first time yesterday—I would like to adopt a rescue schnauzer in a year or t...

Oh, the usual—Hitler, Stalin, George W. Bush. Anybody else? Well, there might be one or two, but you’d think I was absolutely horrible if I ...

"You find out something important about a person when you see how they treat those who are weaker than them. But you find out most abou...

Peggy’s sister, Pam, is a morbidly obese diabetic who eats what she pleases and as much as she pleases. She won’t take insulin, check her gl...

The “funeral” was a reception held by Dick’s five grown children at his house a few doors down. I arrived on time, and it was just them and ...

You might be aware of the recent Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey on which atheists beat out Christians (I scored 100). Last ...

Last week for no known reason, the pain in my shoulders went away for the first time in four years, and the fire in my shinbones eased up to...

Peggy had an ovarian cancer scare last month after her yearly physical, but blood tests, two ultrasounds, and a visit to a surgical gynecolo...

I need to stop responding to comments regarding my last post because, after what I wrote to KJ, I realized that my heart is closed. A closed...

Doyd was 92. Whenever I phoned, his wife would answer and tell him it was me. “Hello, my friend,” he would say as my heart leaped for joy. W...

Peggy and I went for an easy (i.e. flat) six-mile hike last week, and my knees have been hurting so much ever since that I haven’t even been...

We went camping again last week—a two nighter this time—to a 19th century gold mining area that is littered with abandoned mines and ghost t...

They all look alike. In 1923 Germany, they looked like Hitler. In 2010 Oregon, they wear tattoos, nose rings, lip rings, eyebrow rings, gree...

In summarizing his thoughts about religion at the end of the movie Religulous , Bill Maher said something that is seconded by the so-called ...

Peggy is a nurse; Peggy hates doctors. If I hadn’t coerced her into going to one after months of pain and immobility, she still wouldn’t kno...