I see there’s a new version of “Snow White”. I remember the Disney animated one, where little cheeping birds helped hang laundry and tea kettles had faces and sang cheerfully. Maybe that was “Cinderella”....

Another beautiful, warm, sunny spring day in the Pacific Northwest. One of those days that made me feel fortunate to be alive and able to appreciate life. I was sitting outside and realized the...

  I didn’t go to my regular Spanish language class this past week. And I didn’t go to another class I had planned to attend at one of the local community centers. But during...

M The other day I watched an online video of some musicians performing Bach’s “Ode to Joy” on a busy street in some large city. i imagine it was orchestrated (pun intended) because it...

I just finished an audio book by Brené Brown. She’s not new to me, I’ve liked her insights for a while. I think of her as a “behaviorist”, if there is such a word....

The Seattle area has strong ties to Scandinavia. Especially the Ballard part of town. That’s where the sea faring stuff goes down. It’s  not where the lumbering ferries chug back and forth to the...

A pop-up ad for a kid’s pedal car showed up on my laptop’s homepage this morning. Apparently it’s still possible to buy new ones and after a little searching, I also found “refurbished” ones...

Nora Ephron once said, “When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you.  But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.” Wise woman, Nora Ephron. My...

While I was still working, one of my clients was an elderly woman whose family decided massage therapy would be a good addition to her life. She was delightful and I was happy her...

One of my friends who was born and raised in another country takes walks with me now and then. He is a voracious reader of books and even more so, of newspapers. I asked...