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1. (read me first) An accident waiting to happen

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,...

srsandsberry

Mar 18, 20252 min read

2. 6/8/2016: the shit hits the fan

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

srsandsberry

Mar 17, 20254 min read

3. from under the falling piano

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...

srsandsberry

Mar 16, 20257 min read

4. I'd like some cheese with this whine

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...

srsandsberry

Mar 14, 20256 min read

5. when you gaze into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you

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...

srsandsberry

Mar 13, 20257 min read

6. stepping off the train: a viewpoint

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...

srsandsberry

Mar 10, 20253 min read

7. still off the train ... jumping from my dark days to some of our country's dark days

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...

srsandsberry

Mar 8, 20253 min read

8. an intersection that mattered

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

srsandsberry

Mar 6, 20255 min read

9. the bum who changed my life

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...

srsandsberry

Mar 3, 20258 min read

10. a different kind of hero

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...

srsandsberry

Mar 2, 20256 min read

11. greatest athletic performance I ever saw

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

srsandsberry

Feb 28, 20255 min read

12. scattershots from covering pro sports

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

srsandsberry

Feb 28, 20256 min read

15. off the train: when media wasn't "fake news"

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...

srsandsberry

Feb 28, 20253 min read

14. off the train: the day I could have been the hero but wasn't.

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...

srsandsberry

Feb 27, 20256 min read

13. Back on the train: ICEKMWAS*

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...

srsandsberry

Feb 27, 20254 min read

16. off the train: random thoughts

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...

srsandsberry

Feb 26, 20253 min read