At face value, the visual I am unabashedly about to force upon your eyes might seem like one thing, but it is another thing entirely. (close to actual size) Sure, it’s easy to look at at that incongruous mix of light and dark hairs stubbily extending out all over my upper lip and say “Ewwwww!” …
After the better part of the last six days spent holed up and hawking up a whole buncha nevermind, I’m finally diving back into the saddle (yeah I can mix metaphors with the best of ’em) to see how much backlog I’ve gotta wade throughjust to get caught back up to even. Sure, what I’d …
If things have been morgue-quiet this week it’s because following our awesome Halloween, I’m pretty sure I sent my white blood cells into panic mode after inhaling a whole bunch of particulate matter while sweeping up the results of last week’s high winds and doing some emergency trimming of dead fronds and flowers of a …
Before suddenly retiring from motorcycles 15 years ago last month, the helmet that saved my life featured a little slogan I’d stenciled onto its back in bright orange letters that read: HELMETS ARE SMART HELMET LAWS AREN’T To put that phrase in context, it was my indignant/snarky way of expressing my displeasure with the “Government …
Just a quick base touch to express my appreciation for all the kind words and advice that’s come in. Good news: I’m feeling 100% better physically. And even better: I’ve been bolstered emotionally by my daughter agreeing to get together Sunday with me for a chat.
It’s Eosinophilic Esophagitis. EE for short. Kinda cute as disease acronyms go. I didn’t always have EE. It arrived about 6-7 years ago (around the time I moved out of the Valley and into Silver Lake… hmmmmm). Pretty much came from out of nowhere. But in that time since, I’ve been at a total loss …
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A lot better than expected given how it looked the day it happened, thanks for asking. Pardon the stubble after the jump… hard to shave that promintory without opening things up: