In which things get weird — Note: Version I is in nowise necessary for understanding the events related below. I lean over the bed. She reaches up to embrace me. I return this gesture. Are those tears starting in her eyes as we release each other? When we were young together, she was so sexy I…

Try napping with this going on — I’m 72. My ex-wife is 73 and dying of cancer, but if you want to read about depressing shit like that, you’re in the wrong Medium pub. Here we talk about pleasant things, like naps. What is more pleasant than a nice nap? Perhaps a writing contest you can actually…

What will it do, give her cancer? — As I lean over the bed, she reaches up to embrace me. I return this gesture. Are those tears starting in her eyes as we release each other? When we were young together, she was so sexy I could barely stand it. More than forty years on, and now lung…

It’s me, it’s me, it’s God, standing in the need of prayer — Did you ever wonder? I have, which is part of why I keep getting kicked out of bible study class. They don’t think it’s a serious question. Of course God doesn’t pray, because who TF would God pray to, God? I don’t know who, but God must pray to somebody…

There goes my quiet life — I have three adult children. Two sons and a daughter. One son and my daughter turned out all right, very well in fact. The other one, not so much. About this not so much son, son #2. When my (now ex-) wife ran off with my best friend, forty odd…

Don’t forget to thank science for your very existence — The cold north wind drove me down to my brother’s place in Tallahassee, where it’s nice and warm. As usual, we were stoned most of the time. For reasons too complicated to explain, he doesn’t have internet access or WIFI, so we were stuck with a few crummy dish TV…

The mouth dare not say what the brain shouts — Upon arrival at the counter of [well-known rental car company], I learn that I qualify for an upgrade. Yippie! Instead of the economy — as in, doesn’t use much gas — car I reserved, I will be upgraded to a Mustang. Me: A Ford Mustang? Clerk: Yeah, a, uhm, a…

He kindly passed me by — You know how you sometimes swallow something that’s a little too big and you have to relax and wait for it to make its way along your throat? That just happened to me. I sent a little coffee in after it to help it slide down. …

A blog entry if I was keeping a blog — The days between Christmas and New Year’s Day constitute the Saturnalia of the modern world. I love them. That’s when we usually visit our friends P & M. They are well into their 80s now so instead of staying at their house we rent an Airbnb nearby. When we were…