A couple of weeks ago I walked past a house where a woman was digging a trench near the sidewalk and planting several somethings. I couldn’t tell for sure what they were. Yesterday I...
I went through the checkout at the grocery store yesterday and I guess I probably mouthed the obligatory Pacific Northwest, “Hey, howya doin’? to the cashier. She answered quite seriously, “To tell you the...
When I was about six, a relative brought me a present of some little dolls made of soap. They were about four inches tall and there were six or eight of them lined up...
I posted this several years ago but I’m still in Memorial Day mode so if you missed it: In the small town where I grew up, the high school band on Memorial...
I was having so much fun focusing on my post about when the guy told me, “the Marines would have been all over you”. I didn’t bother to think about accuracy. My bad. Armistice...
This is Memorial Day weekend. After World War I, it was known as Armistice Day and when I was growing up, it was called Veterans Day. It was just one day then, not a...
The post office had a food drive a couple weeks ago. Blue plastic bags to be filled with non-perishable items were left at each of our mailboxes and a postal worker was scheduled to...
Our family was together on Mother’s Day and we laughed about some of the things my husband’s mother did. When computers first were available for home use Margaret figured she better stay in touch...
I’m convinced I have a little gypsy blood because there’s nothing I like better than going places. We have a small teardrop camper and I keep a deck of Tarot cards in there, just...
When I started writing my Lightly Tethered blog more than ten years ago, just for fun I advertised with my Facebook friends for a muse. A long-time friend responded and even went so far...
