It's not a glorious way to enter the final years of one's life but so it goes and I'm grateful for it. Because my cancer is so w...

Behold the Good Vibe Solar Collector. Even in the worst of times, there is always something to be grateful for. If I can do it so can you, a...

Passed Eleanor do Antiga Jardim and one of her peachicks on the street the other day. She honked at me when I photograph them which is tot...

2015 when we first visited this place. I am now an official resident of Portugal and actually for about a month already. I forgot to m...

" Today is today, the only day there is, this day, today , so live it and love it"! - Juan Carlos It's been open for...

The world was crashing around our ears— or was it the Anthropocene beginning to open like the century plant opens— in its time— ...

The three kinds of dawn and dusk This morning during civil dawn ,  the time before the sun peeks over the horizon, as we humans while ...

Molly, Swami, and Juan Carlos  M. Lee finally officially became a Portuguese resident today. It shouldn't have taken so long but we ...

The view from my office window tonight. Had a hell of a time focusing on writing today. My end goal is to get a few more things submitte...

For my future reference, what follows is the timeline regarding my diagnosis and treatment for Myoepithelial Carcinoma ------------------...

Several years ago I went through a very bad time. I was living in the hills of West Virginia and would come into town now and then to open ...

Packing, sorting, pruning and letting go of almost two decades of my life has been overwhelming but mostly it's done now and what's ...

Today is the Equinox, the beginning of spring here in the northern hemisphere, autumn in the south. May we all enjoy, if only briefly, this ...

The family, dogs included, came over tonight for lasagna and a movie.Very nice evening. Thea is spending the night. M. Lee and I leave Wedne...

Lisbon, Portugal Morning from the balcony Woke up today to a white fog sky, the barking of a small dog somewhere nearby, and the sou...

Thunder and rain all night and now a cloudy, humid morning. It's almost feels tropical but this is Portland Oregon so I'm not co...

Finally . . . 19:30 GMT (7:30 PM) . . .  and I have managed to crawl out from under the crashing sky of America one more time. Seems I g...

The little birds are eating as fast they can and the quail just arrived. Soon snow will cover everything and everyone will have to wait out ...

First day of summer. All the mysticism and high holy aspirations aside . . .  do yourself a favor. Pause. Yes. Take a moment or two today to...

 The neighbor is rockin' the country tunes. That means he's outside in his hot tub. Trump rages on. He and Kim Jung Un are in a d...