Snowbrush

  Page 1 of My Completed Ballot for the November 8 Election Alek Skarlatos first gained attention in 2015 when he was one of three men who s...

Today, I feel queasy, my throat hurts, and my lungs are congested. I am experiencing these symptoms because Eugene's air smells nauseati...

To my regular readers, some of the following will be familiar. Most will not. I grew-up in an ultra-fundamentalist denomination named the Ch...

Democrats are too stupid to realize that gun control laws won’t work because criminals won’t obey them.  Gun violence is the price that a fr...

  As my regular readers know, I’ve suffered from significant middle-back, shoulder, and knee pain for many years. Eighteen months ago, I sta...

  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...