kellogg bloggin'

1. Back in Valley Cottage, NY, our grandson, Jack, turned 15 years old today. His cousin, David, turned 14 (I think I got that right) at the...

 1. While Carol and Paul are enjoying a week away in and around Meridian, Idaho, I check on their pets in the morning and Christy checks on ...

1. I can't remember all the various ways I've celebrated Thanksgiving over the past decades. I have participated in several traditio...

 1. Like Ishmael, in the opening chapter of Moby Dick , whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever I find myself involunt...

 1.  That Zoom discussion that Bill, Diane, Val, Bridgit, Colette, and I had on Sunday has had my head buzzing all week about the value of a...

 1. My blog post yesterday about mortality, compassion, and the Divine elicited a handful of thoughtful and positive responses that buoyed a...

 1. Today, after a several months hiatus, Bill, Val, Diane, Bridgit, Colette, and I beamed ourselves onto one another's computer screens...

 1. If you read this blog with any regularity, you know that Carol, Christy, and I go out for a once a month outing somewhere in the general...

1. On Saturday, Carol, Christy, and I will head up the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River on a sibling outing. All I really know that...

1.  I start my weekdays off listening to Colleen Wheelahan's classical music program on SiriusXM on the Symphony Hall channel. I have th...

 It's Wednesday.  Also known as Winning Wednesday at the Coeur d'Alene Casino. Just like a week ago, I didn't go to Winning Wedn...

 1. How about this!  At my one year transplant anniversary appointment back in May in Spokane, when the pro assigned to me that day, Natasha...

 1. Rice pudding.  It might have been the culprit.  An 18th century Russian diplomat named Count Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk suffered from ...

 1. I left the house today!  I went on a road trip all the way uptown to Beach Bum Bakery where I bought a delicious apple fritter and three...

 1. I spent a couple of hours over at The Bulwark today listening to Tim Miller interview David Frum and to Sarah Longwell converse with Ro...

 1. It's a terrible situation.  On March, 13, 2019, eighteen year old Sarah Zuber left her home in Rainier, OR to take a walk around 11 ...

1. If all goes according to plan, it will be three months before I open up my laptop and write about a post-transplant visit to a doctor...

 1. Normally, when I put my mocha pot on the burner to create the black liquid gold that is the soul of my morning lattes, I go back to the ...

1. Yesterday, I wrote about how I thought physical movement would help improve my balance and the odd sensations I feel in my head. I heard ...

1.  I am very cautiously optimistic about my heath right now.  Back in June, because of inflammation in my new kidney and concern that my ki...