The Hellish Handbasket

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...

Greetings from sunny Scottsdale. Yes, I'm back in paradise, walking the dog, taking out the trash, and pretending I'm a friend of th...

Now that I live in my car, I'm a new person. It's as if all the years of art school, business school, teaching, editing, taking care...

I'm swearing off thinking for 2025. I know that sounds radical, even impossible, but let me make my case. Before you say, I'm with y...

Here we are again at the end of a year, with a new year staring us in the face. I remember when time moved so slowly, it seemed as if the sc...

'Tis the season for all the people in the upper Midwest to migrate to southern Arizona. It's not hard to understand why. Days here a...

I drew this picture in 2003, long before I had any reason to whine about medications. Back in the old days, when I was young and naive, when...

My dogsit vacation at the Scottsdale resort is coming to an end. For the past three weeks, I've been living someone else's life. At ...

Did you have a good Buy Nothing Day? Great, I'm so glad. Doesn't it feel good to know you aren't contributing to the consumer ma...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Dumb platitude, but it feels true this holiday slash election slash stupid weather seas...

I guess it's time to say happy holidays . Or merry effing Christmas if you prefer. Already, you scream? I know. This holiday season has...

As you might imagine, based on my previous posts, I would have preferred a different outcome in last Tuesday's presidential election. I...

  Here we are again. I used this image in a previous blogpost, probably in 2016. I'm sure I wrote a gloomy doomy post, bemoaning the dem...

I'm at the Tucson Mall. Locals have informed me there are better malls in this city, but I haven't seen them. Driving in a city with...

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...

Greetings from someplace in Arizona. Yes, I am back in the brutally hot sunshine state. I guess soon every state will be brutally hot, but p...

For the past month, I have made a slow boomerang across the country. I started in Oregon in early September, moving east state by state unti...

I know you are all wondering what happened with the medication. Let me get this out of the way. Good news. I presented my calculations (via ...

As I'm driving over hill and down dale in the green farmlands and woodsy forests of the hinterlands, trying to avoid toll roads if at al...

One thing about doing a lot of highway driving: You see a lot of roadkill. Given that roadkill has been in the news lately, I have a heighte...