The Hellish Handbasket

I have been ruled by weather and climate all my life. Even as a kid in Portland, I clung to summer. I dreaded fall because it led to winter....

Somehow I've managed to divorce earning money from receiving money. It's as if the hose got disconnected from the faucet or somethin...

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

The property management company is upping its revenue gathering efforts. The tenants were forewarned. Yesterday, it was my turn. At ten in t...

I grew up on a quiet shady middle class street lined with a mishmash of old farmsteads and ranch-style houses in the armpit of northeast Por...

Nothing is truly wrong, but nothing is right, either. The space in-between has captured me like a sticky bait trap. I’m mired up to my knees...

Today was a day of multiple miracles. I call them miracles. I don't know if they emanate from a divine source—unlikely, in my human opin...

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...

COVID is still a thing here in Arizona. I'm laying low in the Bat Cave, hiding out from omicron, even though I know, as a bleeding heart...

  In the past two days, two people have asked me if I'm really a chronic malcontent. I've been complaining in this space since, what...

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'...

Poor old Google can't keep up. I'm opening and closing several web accounts using multiple log-on identities on two different comput...

Happy new year, Blogbots, all six of you. How are you doing? I hope you are staying safe in this stupid cold season. Yes, cold. Tucson temps...

Happy holidays, Blogbots. May you have as much joy as you can stand during this stupid, cold, virus-infested, consumer-obsessed season. I...

You’ll be relieved to hear, after two weeks of me camping out of an ice chest in the Bat Cave, the maintenance crew carted away the malfunct...