The Hellish Handbasket

Everyone copes with stress in their own way. For example, one of my family members is writing Substack newsletters identifying and excoriati...

In theory, when my life is free of conflict, there shouldn't be much to write about. Maybe today is one of those days. I haven't had...

I'm back in Tucson, just in time for the big October warmup. Fall weather here is unpredictable. Eventually it will cool off. Then the d...

As usual, the holidays stir up mixed feelings in my brain. Beyond the basics of cold, hungry, tired, or leave me alone, I often have no idea...

Tis the season during which the residents of the mobile home park dress up in costumes and shuffle over to the clubhouse to drink strawberry...

In my fledgling career as an amateur dogsitter, I can now claim to have cared for three dogs. Juno is the biggest dog, so far. She's an ...

July is one of my favorite months. Almost everyone I know was born in July. Well, not quite "almost everyone," but a lot of people...

You'd think I'd be used to change by now, after sixty-six years on the planet. Nope. Still not used to it. Still cranky when things ...

  Happy new year, Blogbots. I've had this drawing ready to go since 2016. How are you doing so far on your resolutions for the new year?...

I'm delinquent again on posting my weekly blogpost. My apologies to my five readers. I noticed I have written 606 blogposts. Jiminy cric...

Howdy Blogbots. Sorry to keep you waiting. I usually post on Sunday evenings, but last night I had a deadline on a work project. I'm try...

Do I exist? I'm beginning to doubt my identity. Google certainly does, and I'm pretty sure Google runs the world, so it's no won...

I've been in phone hell this week. My old service provider got bought by a larger tech company and "upgraded" its network. My ...

In this isolated new world of video mentoring, I talk with artists all over the country. One of my favorite pep talk mantras is the world ne...

After a recent Windows update, my computer started giving me the weather report in the notification area of the task bar, whether I want it ...

I thought I could make some money being creative. Not so fast.  I spent the week whining to myself about how hard it is for U.S. artists to ...

Yesterday was the day America sprang forward. I'm talking about clocks, of course. People all over the country were waking up and discov...

It's been a good week. The vertigo bucket in my head has been mostly calm sailing. The salt shaker in my right ear has been mostly silen...

The brain is back. As much as it ever was, anyway, which is good news for me, out here alone in the short branches of the wild west. It'...