The Hellish Handbasket

My friend E told me about the Thank You God Ledge in Yosemite. I looked it up and saw photos. No thanks. It's a long narrow ledge almost...

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 ...

Who knew elevation matters? Maybe you know all about elevation and air pressure. I'm a slow science learner. The experts tell me air pre...

As I walked along the bike path next to the Rillito River this afternoon, dodging bicyclists and enjoying the winter sun baking the back of ...

  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?...

Another year plods to a close. How do individual moments seem to drag when days, months, and years speed by so fast? The moments of 2022 ble...

Remember when Alice fell down the rabbit hole, and she fell for such a long time, she got bored and fell asleep? The lesson of that story is...

I am compelled to evaluate everything. I come by it naturally. My ancestors survived by constantly evaluating their environment for threats....

The question of the day: What is success? Go ahead, take your time. I'll let you ponder the question for a minute. It's not a trick ...

As I was shuffling along the bike path by the dry Rillito River riverbed, I came to a realization that has helped me put another piece of th...

Howdy Blogbots. I'm happy to announce, my glitchy heart keeps chugging along, dragging the rest of me with it. I guess I follow where th...

If I could sum up my primary problem in one sentence, it would be this: I can't stop trying to make sense. Sense of my life, sense of ot...

I don't have much to say tonight. I don't have time, either. It's crunch time for my Spanish dissertator. In any case, when work...

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...

I sense some sort of adventure is lurking over the horizon. Right now, I'm too tired to chase it, but I think it is close by. I hope onc...

I'm listening to some old Pablo Cruise on YouTube while I undertake another round of Swedish death cleaning. Today I packed up my collec...

How many times over the past couple years have I said "my heart is broken"? Haven't you? More times than we can count, probabl...

  I have an ongoing quest to lighten my load. To that end, I have offloaded more kitchen stuff to my housemate. This trailer easily absorbed...

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...