I was on my way out of a store yesterday and the customer in front of me was an elderly man, bent like a comma over his wheeled walker. He had on what my...

It started with a single bird feeder. When ingenious squirrels figured out how to get to it and to the suet cage, I decided I’d cater to the masses and bought another bird feeder....

Several years ago a friend and I went door to door before an upcoming election. We were given a list of people who were registered in our preferred party and were encouraged to make...

A baby gorilla was born at the Woodland Park Zoo here in Seattle a few months ago His mother had been raised by humans and, despite a bunch of gorilla-oriented parenting classes, she rejected...

A couple of days ago while I was searching the shelf of a grocery store for my favorite brand of peanut butter, a man stopped to tell me about the issues he was having...

Ever get pulled into a discussion that escalates and before you know it, becomes a back-and-forth anxiety session with a friend or somebody in your family? Someone you care about is worried and they...

On one of my regular walking routes I pass two of those “little free libraries”, where people both give and get stuff to read. I always look inside. Sometimes I take a book home,...

When we were in Texas for the eclipse three months ago, all twelve of us trooped in to explore a huge convenience-type store along the freeway. Kind of like a Luv’s times fifty. One...

One of my relatives told me when he got a new car, he had an awful time finding it in parking lots. He wandered up and down rows and rows of cars, too embarrassed...

I’m a sucker for travel writing. All different kinds. My obsession began a long time ago with Charles Kuralt’s essays and progressed to William Least Heat Moon’s “Blue Highways”. I haunt travel sections in...