The Hellish Handbasket

Tonight, I'm listening to old Monkee songs, feeling old, decrepit, and irrelevant ( pirouette down palsied paths with pennies for the ve...

A few weeks ago, Mom told me she wanted her mini-blinds cleaned. In her 3-bedroom condo, she has three medium-sized blinds (like 4 to 5 feet...

In honor of the end of summer, I took an extra long walk tonight, hiking around the north and south reservoirs four times. That equals 2.24 ...

Best election season ever, don't you think? Who would have imagined a year ago that we would be astounded by entertainment election tele...

It's hard to type with a fur factory laying across half my keyboard, but I haven't blogged in so long, I thought I'd better try ...

I'm not seeing anything funny to blog about these days. The world is in chaos, the helpless are suffering ... I'm starting to think ...

I'm hunkered in the Love Shack cringing every time a loud boom shatters the neighborhood calm, which is more and more frequently now tha...

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...

I haven't been out of the Love Shack all day. It was 98° today, blue sky and blazing sunshine, our second day of record-breaking heat. I...

Today for the first time this spring, I put on my jogging togs and headed for Mt. Tabor Park. As I marched up the hill, I tried not to notic...

Just over a year ago, I woke up one morning with a new companion: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) or just plain old vertigo. I l...

Earlier this week, I took my maternal parental unit to the dentist for a teeth cleaning. Maybe I should say tooth cleaning. I think she only...

This evening I was sitting in a meeting, reading out loud to a small group from a list on a piece of paper, and I found myself slurring some...

If you've read my blog before, you know I spend a lot of time whining about stuff. As a self-obsessed chronic malcontent, it doesn't...

My sister is in town this week from Boston. She's staying at our mother's condo. We ordered Chinese food from a local favorite resta...

I have epiphanies about as often as I vacuum my carpet, which is to say, about once or twice a year, so when they happen, I try to milk them...

Today I drove my mother out into the country for Cousin Dave's memorial gathering. I took I-84 to US 30 and cut up Newberry Road just pa...

I've been dreaming lately of escape. Hitting the road, leaving it all behind, taking a geographical. Even though I know that wherever I ...

I've only been to Skyline Memorial Cemetery once, with Mom to direct me, some years ago, so I wasn't sure I would find the place. Th...