Snowbrush

Getting my marijuana card and my first batch of legal pot (legal under Oregon law—it’s still a federal crime) took two weeks and a day. Utte...

As I lie awake in the wee hours, I think of death, not so much mine as Peggy’s. I don’t believe I could live without her. I don’t believe I ...

I am now living a life in which I am desperate for sleep. I don’t know why I’m in such pain, but since I felt similarly after my previous su...

For decades, I’ve written my way through depressive periods, but this last one was too deep. The more I despair of ever being free from crip...

Until I was ten, my family lived in the country, and I substituted TV characters for playmates. My favorite program was The Huckleberry Houn...

I called Mark’s office (Mark is my orthopedic surgeon) on Tuesday saying that my pain level was through the roof, and I needed to see him. H...

This post was precipitated by an atheist’s blog in which the owner said she had donated blood for the people of the U.S. Bible Belt after la...

The day after I last wrote, my pain level went through the roof and has stayed there, prompting me to take a phenomenal number of sleeping p...

I just came from the doctor, and he and I agreed that things are going splendidly following my shoulder replacement twelve days ago. This co...

Miscellaneous experiences and reflections Three shoulder surgeries in 25 months. If you don’t think that sounds like fun, you really ought t...

Three months later, a soldier who was about to go into battle wrote the following letter to his wife. July the 14th, 1861 Washington D.C. My...

Test directions: This is a pass-or-fail multiple-choice test that can be completed during a single TV commercial unless you’re a slow reader...

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...