Murrmurrs

Sure is a lot of talk about abortion these days. There has been all along, of course. I remember when Roe v. Wade became the law of the land...

There are things everyone says, so they're assumed to be true. This is why I keep some things to myself. Don't speak ill of the dead...

Meet our little friend. We don't know what he's made of, but if you put him in water, he gets ten times bigger in a couple weeks. Ta...

It was a comment in response to a post about the urgency of forestalling climate catastrophe. "All I know is that we have friends who...

There was a spider crawling along my ceiling wearing a backpack and panniers, and I took a photo of her from the floor so I could zoom in an...

We got the standard load of rain at the beginning of April, right on schedule. According to plan, our reservoirs began to fill up. We get ou...

Someone just told me that America's in trouble because too many of us are blinded by our mindless hatred of the president. One would ass...

Smack me if I ever complain about ants again. Coming up on forty springs we've lived in this house and none of the relevant gods has s...

The cloud's silver lining is more of an ash gray at this point, but here it is: the predicted highs of 100 in Portland in Jesus Johnson ...

Maybe you heard about our heat wave here in Portland. We were in for a good three days of temperatures in the mid-hundreds, followed by a co...

Science marching on It's amazing how much stuff we know! In my lifetime alone--and do not be fooled by appearances, I am but an eigh...

I don't know, guys, I don't know. The good and beautiful people of my good and beautiful city are walking around like survivors in...

We're Americans. We came, we conquered, we pushed into the endless West by the sweat of our brow and the fire of our rifles, and even th...

June 4th. It's over a hundred degrees in Portland bless-my-liberal-heart Oregon. It's unprecedented, since Calendars. Hell, since tr...

Daddy! Come look! There's water falling right out of the sky, just like Grandma said it used to do! Get your pale little fanny right...

Basically, if at some point on a hike I say "it's just up here around the bend" and Dave says "you do realize we could...

West Virginia mountain stream. Finally, there has been some great progress made in the US Senate to address climate change, in much the...

It's a new year, and people like to make resolutions, so I'll tell you about one of mine that totally worked. I'd been riding...