There are fires that are so numerous and large burning in Canada that we are getting bombarded by the cloud of debris, haze, and smoke all the way down in the Midwest. It makes it difficult to go outside and accomplish anything, since the air is tough to breathe. In fact, it’s so dense that…

A lot of what I spend my time doing is staring broadly into space putting together sentences. It’s pulling words from thin air and arranging them to be palatable. But it probably just looks like I’m doing nothing, staring at the breeze. I often find the words on that breeze, but sometimes they blow right…

We have acquired a 1997 Fleetwood Jamboree Searcher which we have dubbed Dolly, our soon-to-be workhorse road trip vehicle: This is a big deal. It’s a chance to hit the road and have some comforts of home away from home. We are still in the process of learning all about this world but when we…

I’m not sure if the number is accurate but I feel like I’ve tried to do and be 1,000,000 things in my life. So many that I’ve decided to commit them to their own, separate, project. I realize the irony, of course, that this may just be another thing with zero purpose other than to…

Ran some errands the other day and saw one of my brother’s childhood friends out and about. He saw me and we did the customary exchange of pleasantries and he asked what I was doing now. I told him I was writing blog posts of different types for clients and he got a sort of…

I was placed on a lifting restriction of 10 pounds after surgery and it made me realize how many things I do that are relatively easy for me normally that I take for granted. This also made me realize how much my favorite humans rely on me to be strong enough to do things I…

Years of issues with my gallbladder led up to the decision to get it removed on May 1st, 2023, just a few days ago. Now that I have found my way out of the persistent fog of general anesthesia and past loads of post-operative soreness, I feel I can make some observations. 1.) I was…

I have had some fairly significant health issues over the years and one of them in 2011 not only killed me but put me on a medicine indefinitely that a person shouldn’t stay on for years. I never bothered to look into the long term side effects of this medicine (Omeprazole) because I trusted the…

It’s April 20 and we all know what that means… Alright to some of us it is just another Thursday. Of all the roads I have gone down, for some reason, that’s never been one of them. I think I just know myself well enough to know that it isn’t my style. It’s been a…

I have a couple of writing projects that I need to work on and I have exactly zero motivation to do either of them. Today is one of those days where I have no motivation whatsoever and I’m looking high and low for some kind of catalyst to get me going. I’m still a little…