Spike and I did some good work on Raven’s last full day with his wife of 63 years. “Friendship Center first on the way?” I asked. “That works. Can you run back here after that and drop me? I will need a car, since I have a conference call with the Judge back in Arizona […]

Annook caught me behind the wheel of the Bluesmobile yesterday. I Heard the ring tone from the front pocket of my Levis, and I fished it out punched “accept” and held it up to my ear. “So, you installed the ring enhancer on the phone.” It was a declarative sentence, not a question, but I […]

The fog is in thick this morning, forty degrees as the morning tries to come on. Standing on the deck in back of the house, the sky is connected to the gray water in wisps of cloud, the highlands across the bay concealed. It was a good day, yesterday after an unpromising start. Raven was […]

For there’s a change in the weather There’s a change in the sea So, from now on, There’ll be a change in me. My walk will be diff’rent My talk and my name Nothin’ about me Is goin’ to be the same, I’m goin’ to change my way of livin’ And if that ain’t enough, […]

It is not as savage a day out on the Bay as it was yesterday, but the gun-metal gray waves are still thrusting east toward the pale brown sand of the beach at the State Park and the low gray cotton-wool clouds are nestling in the chill. I got up fairly early after some vivid […]

I had a report to knock out for the office, and I need to get started on chores at the house. So I was running a little late in getting to Potemkin Village for the lunch shift. I went straight to the Challenged Dining Room, where I am becoming a regular feature. Raven and Bib […]

Well, no long journey is complete until you have the hull lashed firmly to the dock in home-port, and this voyage has a ways to go. But Big Mama has joined Raven in a special place now. She is still with us, still engaged, but living in an alternate reality. I finally got it yesterday. […]

So, in the end, it was no big deal, though of course it is not the end, strictly speaking, just another buoy on the long voyage. I hit the door to the lobby at Potemkin Village at ten sharp. I saw two women- one young and the other a bit older than me- though that […]

Two days without The Daily. Many of you must be relieved. I am engaged in the adventure of Finding Raven’s Roost, prompted by his coming eviction from the Potemkin Village Assisted Living Facility. As Big Mama has declined, he has regained some of his strength, and has been leaving the apartment to “go to meetings,” […]

I was on the way to Willow yesterday afternoon to spend some quality time and avoid packing for what I now have to do this morning. I stepped out of The Madison, where I talked briefly to my pal Mac and dropped off a book I borrowed from him. When I emerged, I could hear […]