Snowbrush

Saturday’s atheist group was the first that I unreservedly enjoyed, partly because we have finally gone from having one existing member to e...

I am going to share the following experience to make a point. On February 8, I went for my appointment with a neurosurgeon whom I hadn’t see...

I love Peggy. She is kind and wise, and the best thing that ever happened to me. I love baking crackers, cornbreads, and biscuits. I also lo...

Part 1 When I took over leadership of my local atheist group, about six of us met irregularly. The first thing I did was to organize a regul...

If I was outraged when Congresswoman Giffords was shot, surely it behooves me to ask myself how I would have felt had G. W. Bush been shot w...

I hate litterbugs. I think they should be shot on sight, and I would include cigarette butt litterbugs. I can sympathize with an occasional ...

Peggy and I took Brewsky to the vet last week for the free check-up that we were promised when we adopted him. We had to wait a long time fo...

Federal employees and contractors—including the Dept of Homeland Security!—have been ordered to stay away from the WikiLeaks’ site and from ...

America is the most populous Christian nation on earth, so it might well be asked by those of you in heathen lands how we celebrate the birt...

We brought Baxter’s body home on Friday, December 10, and buried him that Saturday. He lay on his chair for most of Friday, but Peggy put hi...

I’ll be lying awake in pain from osteoarthritis, syringomyelia, chondromalacia, a Baker’s Cyst, and an aching back, but I’ll be high at the ...

Is my cat the feline equivalent of trailer trash if he ignores his new seven-story “cat tower,” but goes bananas over the box it came in? If...

Baxter wouldn't understand us getting a cat, and he would be incensed to learn that the cat prefers the chair that he sat in for eleven ...

Following a pleasant but fatiguing walk and a quiet afternoon that he spent cuddling with Peggy, Baxter began coughing up blood and struggli...

Isabella moved in a few days ago. I took her back out, but it was so cold that I couldn’t bring myself to leave her, so I brought her in aga...

Peggy went to bed before I did last night because she had a migraine, so I put the dogs out to go potty just before I went to bed. I forgot ...

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...