Quoth Og Mandino

"Never allow yourself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that you forget how to laugh at yourself."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

Horseshoes and other found objects

Sugar Cookie and I took an extra-long walk today because longer walks—especially along uphill routes, strangely enough—do wonders for settling my back pain. Something about my sore back likes climbing hills—if I could just dedicate my entire life to walking slowly uphill I’d have it made! But today we only had about an hour [...]

No snow? Waaa!

Apparently we’re NOT going to get the big snowstorm that the weatherpeoples were predicting for Portland. Waaa! I wanted some snow! I am very selfish because I work at home and don’t have to commute anywhere and I wanted to go play in the snow with my dog. I wanted the whole world to [...]

I saw a wild beehive today!

Today was a somewhat adventuresome day, at least as “adventuresome” as it gets for me and the dog. For today’s walk, I originally thought to take her to Mary S. Young, but then I realized we’re clean out of balls (they’ve all gotten lost or chewed to bits.) I remembered a gentleman I met [...]