Dogs give us their whole hearts. The grief when they leave us is sharp.

It’s time to get up and get to work, y’all.

Where do we go from here?

Great Grandpa Festus had some thoughts on workers, trust, compensation, and more.

If we can bring Condors back from near extinction, what else can we do?

Glacier Lake is beautiful. What goes on. inside my head is not so beautiful.

Some cool people were born in 1964.

Figuring out how to do the hardest thing of all…

Great-gradma was, well, pretty great.

Cheers to my life, my retirement, and my upcoming 60th birthday!

Dogs are good at living in the now.

You can’t tell, but I can tell. My head is lumpy.

Dogs are good at both haste and kindness.

My sense of time is slipping, but I know it’s been three days since the Quail visited!

When Monet got blurry vision, he created masterpieces. When my vision gets blurry, I get nauseous.

When we’re waiting, it seems like tomorrow will never come. How do we manage to stay present in the midst of it all?

Recovery is going well, including a fabulous family Christmas. Kate 2.0 goes live on January 8, 2024.

Festus John Wade, III

August 13, 1928 - December 13, 2023

Nothing says brain surgery like a bald, scarred head.

Surgery done - time to nap on the couch….