Mom and her cronies went to see The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk at the Dallas Museum of Art. MOM: Oh, you really should see it. Really uptown. They had some beautiful dresses…and talking mannequins… ME: Talking mannequins? That’s kind of creepy. MOM: It was creepy but you Continue Reading

It’s the end of a busy day. You feel like you got the work done that you wanted. You feel free. It’s nice outside; balmy. You’ll take a walk. Actually, since you need a few things at the store — only a few — you’ll combine your exercise with your errand by walking to the Continue Reading

“Can’t wait to see what you do for an encore.” This is my brother-in-law talking, in the car on the way to my Mom’s house after being discharged from the hospital in early December. This is meant to be funny because I was in the hospital two years before at pretty much the exact same Continue Reading

(Tuesday – Sunday) Day 7: Tuesday, Nov. 29 Enema! Like pepper spraying protestors, only soapy water, from behind. Mwah-ha-ha! Hold 30 minutes. Manage one. Run. Don’t. Entirely. Make it. Humiliation! Hooligans! Little effect. Grasp hope, dignity. Previous day’s x-rays unimpressive. Bit o’ barium through, but slowly. Walk halls, suck on hard candy, start Reglan drug, Continue Reading

Part I (Wed-Monday) I’ve been remiss. Absent. Immersed in the Lost Thanksgiving; the Twelve Days of Sickness; the numbing void that ended up being 10 days in a hospital room with bad cable and reruns of Unsolved Mysteries. Here are highlights. They include talk about poo. Consider yourself warned. Day 1: Wednesday, Nov. 23rd  8:30am: Continue Reading

Back when I was sporting a chemo-induced chrome dome, I remember someone saying that if I were cancer-free for five years, I would be considered cured. A loaded statement and a tall order, but something to shoot for, if making it five years without a recurrence was within my control. It was like being on Continue Reading

I didn’t get stranded on Cabin Remote but I did get pulled into some client deadlines. Now that I’m out of those woods, I can walk out of the Alaska wilderness too, in this last Alaska 2011 entry. Cheers. Wednesday, Sept. 21 The boxes of garbage bags are at the ready; it’s packing day. Mom Continue Reading

Rain, rain, stay.  From Sunday night to Tuesday it rained. And rained and rained some more. Having come from Austin where we broke the record for the number of 100+ days in one summer, I was delighted. The harder it rained, the happier I was. Monday morning I wake up in the top bunk but Continue Reading

Stopping to get ice. The dogs’ nails on the cabin floor and insatiable enthusiasm to further dampen the rain forest wake us up; wag and pace, wag and pace. The air in the cabin is colder by some ten degrees putting it in the 50′s. Paul lets the dogs out, starts the generator, makes a Continue Reading