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...

The town where I lived before this had a bunch of large, city-wide festivals every year. We have a friend who spent a couple of months with us and he was amazed at the...

I remember an elderly woman I used to know who told me she was old enough to remember the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. She grew up in the mining country of North Idaho...

When I was growing up, my small town didn’t allow trick or treating. Someone told me it was because something dangerous had happened years ago. Someone else said it was to prevent Halloween pranks...