That Brutal California Weather

done bopped me a shiner . . .

Left: I took an asphalt header . . . Right: four days later . . . photos of and by Margie Willis

Last Wednesday, I was out walking my dogs in my wheelchair when the thirty-five mile-per-hour wind was blasting around the corners of tall buildings. The sidewalk gives a slight downhill boost (which I dig) so we were hauling along at a brisk clip as usual.

Gusting wind blew me off the sidewalk and slammed me to the pavement which…