I'm currently in northwest Phoenix, staying with an old high school friend who had an empty guest room and a big heart. In a good but complex way, she was able to arrange for me to have some very inexpensive hyperbaric oxygen therapy close to her home. Hyperbaric
I know I don’t update this the way I thought, so I appreciate those of you hanging in there with me. This is from a newspaper column I wrote in 2002, although I’ve updated some. I wish you all a Merry Christmas, right this very minute, and here’
As of this morning, when I happened to notice, I have a FICO credit score of 826 out of 850. If you’re into credit porn, that’s good. This reflects nothing other than a desire to remain out of debt in these senior citizen years as much as possible,
Some days I feel like someone thumbing through one of those suspect books on TV, in the police station. I’m looking for explanations, although really? I’m just trying to find easier ways to explain my life to the rest of my world. I flip through the pages until
When I began to write this post, I went on Safari and noticed two tabs open, both of them having to do with a TV show I was watching (recaps and commentary). One of them was more of a bookmark, but the other could be closed. And as soon as
My night owl friend called again the other night, 3:30am. I managed to silence it and go back to sleep. It’s really a mild irritation on my part — this is just who he is, and he’s lonely and sentimental and he works until the wee hours. I
An old and dear friend called me very early this morning. He does this, being a night owl and usually staying up until dawn. He likes to leave voice messages and never expects anyone to answer, and I guess assumes that we all know how to mute our phones. My
Earth is 4.5 billion years old, we’re told. Roughly. Everything in geologic time is rough. This has been divided into four eons, which have varying lengths, delimited by events. The current eon, the Phanerozoic, began around 540 million years ago when the first hard-shelled creatures appear in the
A short story: Influenza is going through a community. For most people, it’s a 3-day affair, not bad. Some people take a bit longer to recover. Some people actually take a few months, but by then they’ve forgotten all about that bug back in October. They figure it’
This summer we had a lot of renovation work done on this house. Most of the big problems were fixed a couple of years ago, so this was mostly for comfort and cosmetic improvements. We got a new bathroom downstairs, which was the biggest thing. We also had new flooring
I am a lifelong seeker of just the right word. I’ve always been this way. I don’t know how or if it resulted in my becoming a writer, although there are obvious arguments to be made. I had my fingers in many pies when I was younger, though,
I do a lot of housework. Or, really, a lot of what I do is housework. Because it’s something I can do. The first couple of years, I had lots of routines to give my days structure. Not only personal hygiene stuff (but that was important), but chores around