Pump it up, until you can feel it Pump it up, when you don’t really need it* Last summer I noticed that I was going to the gas station about once a month to use the air pump. The flat tire symbol (_!_) on my dashboard was lighting […]
In March 2018, I deactivated my Facebook account and I really haven’t missed it. Occasionally, when talking about something they had read or posted on there, family members have said: “Oh, I forgot you aren’t on Facebook anymore.” Otherwise, its absence from my life has been largely unnoticed. […]
It is brutally cold right now and many people are going to endure terrible conditions both on the streets and at home. Every year, some homeless people die, and this year is worse than most. Folks in Alberta don’t talk about global warming much. We might talk about […]
Today we drove from Idaho Falls, Idaho to Winnemucca, Nevada, which is roughly 445 miles (716 km). This is a long unexciting section of the journey with very little to look at. The most challenging part was making sure I didn’t run out of gas during the hundreds […]
Today we drove from Shelby, Montana to Idaho Falls, Idaho which is 441 miles (710 km). The roads were bare and dry, the weather was good, and there was very little traffic. We listened to more episodes of The Strange Case of Starship Iris and Dear Hank and […]
Yesterday we had two bikes stolen from our garden shed. One bike was expensive, one was not. Regardless, I’m upset. We are good people who live good lives. We work hard, pay our bills, and we don’t take what doesn’t belong to us. Most of the time we […]
As I waited for the bus yesterday, I sat on the bus bench outside one pawn shop and across the street from another. An older man came along and picked up some litter that was in the bus shelter and I thanked him. “You’re a good man,” I […]
I am a snowbird who travels south for the winter. When I get there I have a bird of paradise plant on my patio.
