Ché (What You Call Your) Pasa

Over the years, we've bought a lot of art: paintings, prints, photos, posters, sculpture, etc. We're overloaded with it because we h...

We've had a Maytag Centennial "Featuring Commercial Technology" washing machine for a number of years -- probably 8. It has a ...

 Fascinating. Later in her TeeVee career, she used her own kitchen in her Cambridge, Massachusetts, home rather than a television set, but e...

 I started a post a long time ago about kitchen renovations and remodeling but I haven't finished it and don't think it really gets ...

I've recently focused some thoughts on the fact that I can walk but not very well these days -- very unsteady on my feet and must use a ...

"Death by chocolate. Is that the one?" I asked Ms. Ché yesterday as we munched on the chocolate cake that I baked. She laughed and...

IN Buddhism, the question of "knowing thyself" is fundamental because there is nothing knowable literally or figuratively outside ...

I haven't forgotten my long-time interest in the Planets and all things exploratory among them. I haven't followed as closely as I o...

Ms Ché and I are well into our seventies. Neither of us really thought we'd be around this long, especially given our wild youth. But he...

 I completed a 12 week course of antibiotic treatment for osteomyelitis in early December and thought that with enough physical therapy, I...

Many of us have been losing hope for years that the slouch toward a Fascist future can be reversed or delayed. The West, as it were, has Fas...

I confess I did not vote this time around. Went to the MVD to get a handicapped parking permit -- finally; it's taken a month to do the ...

Kamakura Daibutsu from Wikimedia Commons So I'll try to join a Rohatsu sesshin from December 1 through December 8 as a celebration of Sh...

  I'm getting better! I think I'll go for a walk! Welp, It's a little hard to describe what my recovery has been like. I am doin...

 So let's explore a little bit, okay? A tale to tell... I started noticing back problems around the first week of July and went to the E...

Just got home from three weeks+ in two hospitals being treated for osteomyelitis and discitis. I know there is a lot of chatter on the inter...

I've been hospitalized since August 28 with a serious bone infection affecting my spine and hips. I've been essentially bedridden th...

After lavishing praise on the staff at the ER, I got home only to wake up the next day with symptoms of Covid. I'd been exposed, I knew,...

 Welp, it's happened again. After waiting longer than I should have, I called the advice nurse about my increasingly uncomfortable condi...

There are lots more memory aids now than once there were. It's easier to remember but also easier to get confused. One of my memory aids...