Bear With Me: Looks like I’m getting my Christmas goose early
I shuddered with disgust when I read in the news that the city and county of Denver had rounded up and killed hundreds of Canada geese that had called Washington...
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Bear With Me: My cat sucks
Small birds chirp pleasantly outside, and a little farther away, a pair of crows sing a dissonant song. The sunlight breaks through the vertical blinds and strikes the bed to...
Bear With Me: Maybe I’m just bitter
At least three holidays need to be done away with. Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day come with calls to shop from big box stores. There has to be...
Bear With Me: Pleased to meet you
He wasn’t what I expected at all. When I decided to meet The Devil to sell my eternal soul, I envisioned a smooth talker in a sharkskin suit with gator...
Bear With Me: Me vs. insomnia
1:19 a.m. — Well, that was a good weekend. I’m really tired, and it’s getting so hard to keep my eyes open to read this book, which is an entertaining...
Bear With Me: The predicament of a pregnant man
Todd grimaced and clutched his midsection as he and Sally, his girlfriend of five years, perused the ramen noodle aisle at a Wal-Mart Super Center on a Sunday afternoon. The...
Bear With Me: ‘Fatal Beauty’ and fun with fentanyl
My father was a pioneer in the cable and VHS tape piracy racket, so I watched bootlegged copies of movies ad nauseam during my formative years. One of my favorite...
Bear With Me: ‘Operation Rescue the Sleeping Mexican’ on standby
I first noticed him while walking to the open space trail near my spacious, two-bedroom apartment in Arvada. The “trail” is not much more than an easement that runs along...
Bear With Me: A reasonable way to keep the Matrix in order
I watched “The Matrix” on Netflix the other day because I’ve only seen it 20 times or so since it came out. I find the wealth of options that streaming...
Bear With Me: On the record and off my meds
Happy Mental Health Awareness Month, everybody! In February, I weaned myself off of my mood stabilizer after 13 years of consuming psychiatric drugs — 17 of them at last count....