The Hellish Handbasket

Monsoon in Arizona is late this year, but maybe it's finally starting. According to the weather app, it's supposed to rain every aft...

Spring in Portland is an on-again off-again phenomenon. Now you see it, now you don't. Now it's sunny, oops, now it's raining. A...

When did the Department of Motor Vehicles turn into such a bureaucratic pithole? I've been to several DMV locations in the greater Portl...

I'm always shocked when my car speaks to me, but I've learned to listen when the horrible chime jangles my nerves to tell me somethi...

It has become very clear to me that my inner ears march to the unseen unheard drumbeat of fluctuations in air pressure. I am a creature of t...

Howdy Blogbots. How are you doing? Have you ever wondered how time can seem as slow as summer and yet also be as fast as a flash flood? Time...

  Howdy, Blogbots, all seven of you. How is it going? It's Sunday again. I don't have much to report on the Occupy an Apartment fron...

It's spring in Portland, which means it is sunny one moment and pouring the next. As I drove across town today, I felt like I had my own...

No complaints from rainbow city. I'll take our unsettled rain squalls and sun breaks over 6-foot snow drifts any day. On the hierarchy o...

Have you ever driven on a freeway at night in rainy fog and felt like you were not moving at all, or felt like you might just possibly be at...

Yesterday I checked the dissertation online course room to see if there was word on the status of my concept paper. After two weeks, there i...

While I'm avoiding writing my literature review, I have the time to obsess about other things. I'm feeling somewhat fragile. The bes...

We have an abundance of fresh water here in the Pacific Northwest. Right now, as the meteorologists proclaim the wettest month on record and...