The Hellish Handbasket

In my preparation for leaving the Love Shack, I'm unfeathering my nest in circles, the same way I feathered it, adding a wall of shelves...

I miss her. I miss the routine, my sense of purpose, my north star. I knew this would happen, that I would be lost for a while. It’s differe...

I decided that packing up all the clutter would make me feel better so I dug my flattened spider-infested boxes out of my basement storage c...

The day I have both dreaded and longed for arrived last Thursday. After an hour of terrible pain in her gut, my mother shuffled off the mort...

For the past couple months, I've shared my bathroom with a house spider. I told my mother about the spider, and Mom named it Esmeralda. ...

  Howdy, all you Blogbots, merry ho ho. I hope you are celebrating the season safely, pandemic-style. I'm doing fine in the Love Shack, ...

 Hello, happy holidays to my seven blog readers. You sly anonymous folks, you know who you are. I've been anonymously writing this blog ...

  Howdy Blogbots. Feeling like giving thanks yet? Yeah, me neither, although I should. I'm alive, after all. I hesitate to admit things ...

Is it time to exhale yet? I'm not sure. I keep telling myself, wait until this class is over, wait until this event is done, wait until ...

Happy fall!? What was I thinking? More like happy winter here in the Rose City. We bypassed fall and went straight to misery. I am ramping u...

Howdy Blogbots. How's it going? I'm doing fine, thanks for asking. Oh, I have the usual challenges, like anyone in these strange tim...

Moving day came and went last Thursday, sandwiched between two days of heavy rain, and nobody died. In the morning, I spent two hours feveri...

After nine long days, the stinky brown haze is gone from Portland skies. Nine days of smoking twenty packs of cigarettes a day gives me rene...

Off and on over the past three months, people in other parts of the country have asked me if Portland is on fire. Each time, I scoff and say...

Oregon gave away free money earlier this month. I didn't find out I qualified for some until a couple days ago, long after the funds ran...

 I've come to believe that my purpose in life is transporting ants and spiders from one place to another. The ants prefer to travel by s...

 You ever have one of those days when it seems like nothing goes quite right, and then you suddenly realize you have your shirt on backwards...

It was one hundred degrees today and I feel like a new person. The ear hissing is still digging into my skull every twenty seconds but I don...