Snowbrush

I told the nurse that the patient whose room she had sent me to wasn’t Peggy. She said that it was Peggy, but I still had to look at the old...

I rarely curse anyone, but have done so twice in one week. The first time was when I saw a man picking a bouquet of flowers in a public park...

Story I Dr A, an internist, confidently announced after a single office visit that my LEG PAIN was caused by Chronic Regional Pain Disorder,...

I went into atheism kicking and screaming, but many atheists found it easy to give up their religion because it never made a lick of sense t...

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 ...