I don't believe any of us is truly ready for abrupt massive change unless it's a change we have planned and emotionally prepared for,...

just an FYI ... I intentionally used that S word instead of being cutesy circumspect by saying "excrement" only because I want any...

Even after hearing and understanding that with the right half of my brain erased, the left side of my body no longer had an operating...

Scott and Rhonda at Cape Kiwanda nine days before his stroke. OK, if you've been reading this in the order I numbered these posts, you've...

Okay, this should be the fifth blog post you read, not the first just because it may be on the top. You needed to begin with the title...

Okay, if you've been reading these posts in the order they were numbered, you have taken my post-stroke journey with me since my big-ass...

August 5, 1971, will be a day I will never forget, even with my half a brain. that was the day my future (including whether I might...

each person's life journey is punctuated by intersections with the paths of other people's lives. Some of these intersections barely...

Number 52 changed my life. Right after I called him a bum. "Number 52, you bum!" Who was that guy anyway? For more than 15 years, I had...

I didn't know Chuck Smith well enough to know what sort of things he found humorous, but I think he might chuckle at the thought of...

Although in my nearly four decades as a newspaper I covered the performances of a lot of college and professional athletes whose...

Although my favorite sports coverage was unquestionably at the high school level, I did spend plenty of time covering the pros, so here...

I got very lucky early in my newspaper career to find myself at the Bellingham Herald at the same time the great Dick Beardsley was the...

Sensibility warning: This post includes profanity, repeated use of the F word. If this will offend you, DO NOT READ. As I have said in...

I know, I know what you’re thinking, we gotta get back on that damn bummer of a half-brain train ride with all that dark emotional...

A waterbird’s wings have this kind of oil, which is what keeps it afloat. So you should never wash a seagull with detergent, because...