Snowbrush

  Here is how Johns Hopkins describes the surgery I had on Thursday: “A transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is surgery to remove ...

Last Friday (April 8), I had a posterior capsulotomy . This is a laser procedure in which a hole is cut through a cloudy, post cataract surg...

Peggy’s first adventure with bears occurred while camped in the Arizona desert (the place was named the Coronado National Forest because of ...

  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...