Snowbrush

A very liberal woman told me at a party last night that I’m the only Mississippian (I live in Oregon, but was a Mississippian for most of my...

I finished my work in the laundry room today, a project that would have gone faster had I not been obliged to continually stop to chase Brew...

Now that Peggy’s gone. I get up between 10:00 and 11:00, eat oats or Grape Nuts for breakfast, work all day while I listen to Western audiob...

I saw my new pain doctor today, and he loaded me down with Lidoderm, Cymbalta, and Butrans (I already had Dalmane, Ambien, Restoril, Neuront...

Christians often assume that atheists regard Jesus as a great man, but that they either don’t believe he was real or else they don’t believe...

I’m going to betray a tree that has provided me with beauty and shade for the 21 years I’ve been in this house. The tree is a Ponderosa Pine...

My father quit school in the eighth grade rather than let a teacher whip him for fighting. The next day he left Route 4, Bogue Chitto, Missi...

I see wisdom in approaching life as I would a drug trip, that is to enjoy the good times despite their fleeting nature, and to survive the b...

I know that some of you weary of my drug experiences, but I would ask for your compassion as I travel the dark road of pain upon which guide...

So, I go to the doc, and I say, doc, I want a prescription for Fentanyl, and he says, okay, since your life won't ever contain anything ...

My atheist group had a picnic in the country today. I had said I was going, but changed my mind a few hours before it started because I’m al...

Continuing right along with my medical marijuana experimentation, I made some ganja butter by simmering leaves in butter overnight in a croc...

Killer and Candy (why, yes, I did give them aliases) are former Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW for short) who walked away from that cruel, isolati...

If you're in the mood for happy music, go to my last post, but if your inclination is toward darkness, stay here. When I started medical...

I found Lou Bega’s CD A little bit of Mambo at Goodwill last week and, not having heard of him, decided to risk $2.69. Peggy likes him more...

Russell—my habitually jobless brother-in-law—lived by the motto: “Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you...

As a child, I couldn’t imagine that anything existed apart from my presence, and this resulted in the happy thought that the entire universe...

I started out smoking my pot with a homemade pipe, but I hated that pipe, so I got a store bought one, but I hated it too. I then bought a b...

After praising the pain-killing and mood-elevating qualities of marijuana in my last post, I cut my Naproxen (an anti-inflammatory) by half ...

The trouble with choosing people older than yourself for friends is that they sometimes look at you with a wry smile, and you know they’re t...