The Hellish Handbasket

This should be interesting. I didn't bring my keyboard into the mall with me today, so I'm typing on the virtual keyboard that comes...

After weeks of hiding out in Portland, living in parking lots of public parks during the day and trolling Portland streets for safe places t...

Sometimes when I'm walking around the reservoir at Mt. Tabor Park (my old neighborhood), I see an athlete. You wouldn't know she was...

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...

I'm boohooing the blues back in my hometown, Portland, Oregon. Cool but not freezing, raining but not all the time, and relentlessly gra...

The temperature is rising in Southern Arizona. In a month, nobody without air conditioning would choose to stay here, if they could leave. E...

Wherever you go, there you are. It's an old adage, but a good one. Wherever I go, I can't escape myself. I keep trying, but my body...

Greetings from someplace in Arizona. Yes, I am back in the brutally hot sunshine state. I guess soon every state will be brutally hot, but p...

For the past month, I have made a slow boomerang across the country. I started in Oregon in early September, moving east state by state unti...

I know you are all wondering what happened with the medication. Let me get this out of the way. Good news. I presented my calculations (via ...

As I'm driving over hill and down dale in the green farmlands and woodsy forests of the hinterlands, trying to avoid toll roads if at al...

One thing about doing a lot of highway driving: You see a lot of roadkill. Given that roadkill has been in the news lately, I have a heighte...

When I was an adolescent, I shared a room with my sister. A large black fly got in through the window and hung around. We named it Fred. Fre...

One thing I've disccovered about living in a car is that my environment requires me to be present in the moment. Being present has never...

This week I've been diligently performing my role as pilot car. Being the pilot car means I'm a leader, not a follower, or I guess y...

I'm coming to you from Track Town, USA, otherwise known as Eugene, Oregon. The weather finally cooled enough for me to leave the misty g...

I'm blogging to you once again from beautiful Scottsdale, where the sun almost always shines, and when it isn't, the wind is howling...

It might be human nature to want to feel significant, to know we've made a difference by existing. I remember reading stories of pioneer...