Snowbrush

  By September, 1971, Peggy and I were engaged. On the memorable day in question, we were in my parents’ backyard petting my little dog, Wol...

Peggy and I were married in late ’71; our friends, Lynn and Christy, in early ’72. Soon afterward, Christy got a kitten that she adored. Aft...

  In 1987, I took a job at the University of Oregon where I was instantly attracted to a woman named Ellen who conducted the group orientati...

  We would have moved to Eugene a year earlier had Peggy been able to find work at Sacred Heart Medical Center (I did property maintenance a...

  When I left—I never graduated—Brookhaven, Mississippi’s high school in 1967, I had to choose between college and Vietnam. Happily, a tiny,...

Had I not been a bearded atheist, liberal, intellectual, vegetarian, integrationist, environmentalist, pot smoking, Thoreau-reading, lover o...

  Sacred Heart Medical Center What I’m about to share represents my memories and beliefs. Peggy’s memories and beliefs might differ. Two wee...

Mississippi Deputy and Sheriff Being Indicted for Murdering Civil Rights Workers During my Mississippi childhood and adolescence, the follow...

  For better and worse, I have, over the years, held views that are anathema to most people, particularly when it comes to the rights of non...

  Eight people have thus far died as a result of American’s latest mass shooting, which occurred at a Fed Ex facility in Indiana last night....

      T he Turkish Angora*   I take the maximum narcotic dosage for a non-terminal patient. Narcotics reduce pain and elevate mood, but when...