Today they are picking in our orchard again. There are people milling around and dust is drifting around the oak trees. Huge tractors are pulling bushels and bushels of cherries out of the trees. The wind is moderate and is making the orchard go shushshsh. There are times that the birds sound louder than usual. […]
It was 5 years ago today that Nicole and I began our relationship. There was so much going on in those days. I was in the middle of cancer treatment, recovering from major surgeries, and waiting to find out if my prognosis is terminal. She was going through a lot as well, which isn’t my […]
This will be my first post since leaving Facebook (this time…). It will be interesting to see what the traffic will look like. I will post this on Twitter, but most people I personally know don’t use Twitter. I close both accounts on Saturday night. They both made it difficult to quit. You can’t kill […]
I have decided yet again to log out of Facebook. I will log off June 21st. The last time I did this, on September 7th, 2017, I was off for just over a year. I felt better mentally and emotionally. I wrote a blog last time I did this with my reasons. Then we started […]
Sometimes to make a journey worth it is to think you might not make it. The Odyssey isn’t really an odyssey without the cyclops, the lotus-eaters, or the sirens. The hero doesn’t become a hero without obstacles and evil thwarting his way. It doesn’t really have to be an epic adventure to be a journey. […]
My faithful readers, you are probably wondering how I am holding up during this virus quarantine. I’ve received hundreds of emails asking me how I am doing, and instead of responding to each person individually, I will tell you in blog form. A week before the stay at home orders began I got a job […]
Love is never a constant and steady thing where one feels it and if it is the one true love, never goes away. Love is fickle. Love is an action that one takes when they don’t feel it, to be grateful when one does feel it, and to never take the other person for granted. […]
One of my favorite things is to take Rufus for a walk in the orchard. Our house is surrounded by cherry trees of different ages. During the day, during the winter, there is a whole forest of short skeletons, but at night it is a haunted affair. I love that he can be off his […]
Time, of course and cliché-y, is an illusion. Sometimes it falls by us like windows of a building that we just jumped off with the wind whistling in our ears, and sometimes time treats us as immortals: slow. When certain days repeat, we stop and think of ourselves. New Year is no exception, and in […]
A lot of the roads that lead out of the Dalles start being gravel dirt roads that wind through pine forests and rocky canyons. The road we live off is one of those roads. Some of the roads will wind through the eastern slopes of Mt. Hood. One such one laner gravel road will get […]