I got a letter in the mail yesterday. It might well have been a love letter, from my overjoyed reaction. It was from the mother of a friend of my son’s. She lives about...

I’ve heard once you learn, you never forget how to ride a bike. I didn’t forget how, but it turns out I can’t ride my bike anymore. It’s a beautiful 24-speed TREK and I’ve...

Over the 50-plus years my husband and I have been married, we’ve lived in houses in eight different states. During that time, the floors were mostly carpeted and I didn’t give them much thought...

I just came home from spending a week in the hospital on IV antibiotics after I contracted some powerful bacterial infection from a scrape on my arm. I’m happy to be alive. Happy that...

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...