My dog is insistent about routines. Much more so than any dog I’ve had in the past. It’s extremely important to her that we do the same things at the same times. When it...

Last weekend I happened to be in the next suburb over. It’s a tourist-y place, probably because the ferry to Whidbey Island comes and goes there. It was a nice day and when I...

It was time for a Costco toilet paper run and I decided to go first thing when they opened in the morning, something I’d never done. I got gas at the station there and...

  Wednesday is Garbage Day. I don’t have anything against Wednesdays. It just happens to be the day our trash is picked up every week. And our compost bin is emptied. And, every other...

I used to have a couple of bee hives and I loved my girls. I say “girls” because it’s the females who do all the work, unless you count impregnating the queen as “work”....

Whenever I’m on a walk and realize someone’s moving at a fast pace behind me, I immediately think I need to speed up. Always be faster. Always be stronger. Don’t let them win. Those...

My husband and I have a T@B, a small teardrop camper and last week we took it to a state park for a few days. The morning after we arrived, we got up and...

Something the other day reminded me of the movie “Husbands and Wives” and I decided to rewatch it. It wasn’t as funny as I remembered but there’s one part that still made me laugh....

One of our granddaughters graduated from high school last week. The commencement speaker was a woman named Dr. Mary Brunkow, who had graduated from that same high school and is now a Nobel Prize...

Not too long ago there was a Sikh festival down in Kent, in the south part of Seattle. I didn’t go, I read about it. I will be the first to admit I know...