When the sun is shining, angels are traveling. I don’t know the origin of the expression but I loved the sound of it when someone told it to me. Of course, it didn’t hurt...
It rained on and off for two days — good long soaking rains — and after the horrifically hot summer and so many deadly, scorching fires here in the Northwest, it was lovely. I...
I got an email from the library yesterday morning, saying that I had had a particular book for so long that it now was listed as missing. The library sends a cautionary email a...
At the start of the school year I happened to be in an office supply store and saw a woman buying a large stack of black and white composition notebooks. They were on sale...
We usually don’t get any trick or treaters out where we live and for someone who loves Halloween as much as I do, it’s a teensy bit disappointing. I always buy candy, just in...
My hands dripped water across the floor as I walked from the sink to the air dryer in a public bathroom a couple of weeks ago and I puzzled over who in the world...
We had a veterinarian neighbor many years ago who together with his girlfriend, loved to do holiday things for our kids — like decorating a tree in the front yard with hanging plastic candy-filled...
The other day on Facebook I saw a posting explaining the difference between garlic grown in this country or imported from China. The Chinese may harvest perfectly good garlic yet I prefer to buy...
For a long time I’ve wanted one of those cozy-looking red and black checked flannel shirts. I’ve studied them in different stores and catalogs and haven’t made the plunge, though my lumberjack persona continues...
