“I only like big dogs.” The first time I heard this, it came from a neighbor up the road. She saw me going past, quite obviously enjoying a walk with my new shelter puppy...

I met Michele on a deserted beach on the Washington coast last week, where she was watching the waves break on the shoals offshore. Our conversation started because I was curious about the elaborate...

We camped last week along the Columbia, the “Great River of the Northwest”. After the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam in 1942, this part of the river became the 130-mile long Lake Roosevelt....

I’m a subscriber to the belief that things are meant to be, also known as the universe-is-unfolding-as-it-should theory. Neither of these are to be confused with the it-is-what-it-is doctrine which, in my opinion, is...

One of my friends was confused when at her annual physical she heard the doctor ask if she was “a backhoe user”. What she was actually asked was if she was “a tobacco user”....

  Just over a month ago I was greeted by this cat meowing loudly at our back door. I opened it to get a better look and he muscled his way into the kitchen,...

The first thing I did after getting my second Covid-19 vaccine was to schedule some dental work I’d been delaying. The second was to make a trip to Costco. I’ve been using curbside pickup...

My husband’s mother treasured a large marble bust a friend had brought her from Paris in the 1950’s. “Poesie” was white, delicately featured and wore a leafy garland around her head. She was what...

  I wrote this a year and a half ago after a trip through central Oregon and, after submitting it to a place that has published some other stuff of mine, was told this...

I was looking through a box of old photos and found a studio shot of my husband’s cousin, her yearbook picture from high school or college. I immediately texted her to say I had...