A friend I met at a writing workshop sent me an article by a woman named Dr Nadine Levy. The lead-in was “What If Your Life Turned Out To Be Ordinary?” I don’t know...

One of our granddaughters sings in the Seattle Children’s Choir and of course, we go to the concerts. At the last one, there was a boy about ten years old in the group and...

My husband’s mother had a crazy saying she threw into conversations every now and then: “Well, sew buttons on a chimney.” She used it kind of like Tony Soprano would shrug and say, ‘Whaddaya...

I live in Seattle, a city that would seem large enough to support a number of good sized fabric stores. That’s not the case. There are some smallish specialty fabric places that have lovely...

I know a woman who, when her adult son died, included the cause of death in his obituary. It was alcoholism. I’ve never seen anyone do that. Alcoholism can be an embarrassment. People are...

The saltwater park where I like to walk is located high on a bluff with beautiful views of the Olympic Peninsula across the Puget Sound. Stairs from the parking lot go down to the...

I have a friend who used to take long walks with me almost every week. Our favorite place was along the sidewalks and trails at the saltwater beach park a mile from where I...

I used to sew a lot. In high school and my early twenties, I made a bunch of my own clothes, even complex coats with linings. Then later on I made clothes and Halloween...

I was listening to a Tom Paxton song and the lyrics went like this: “It’s a long and dusty road. A hot and heavy load. The folks I meet ain’t always kind. Some are...

Pema Chodron is a Buddhist nun whose writings I really like. She’s insightful and she’s also funny. I always think of Buddhists as being kind of above normal human foibles. She disproves that. In...