I was scrolling through Netflix and found myself pulled into a series called “Indian Matchmaker”. I was fascinated by the continuing practice of arranged marriage. The people on the show weren’t rural folk or...

I was out walking the other day when a woman stopped me in the parking lot of a Presbyterian church just up the road. She spoke no English and I couldn’t understand her language...

I knew a man who fought in World War II. He came home with PTSD. At that time the word was shellshocked. He was dramatically changed by his war experiences. He’d been a quiet...

    Well duh. I didn’t resize the photo before MailChimp sent this and if you tried and read it in email instead of clicking on the link and going to the website, it...

      Did the solar eclipse this past week live up to the hype? Yes, yes,YES! And more. I’ve seen partial eclipses, and our family went to the last total eclipse visible in...

We had a huge windstorm a week ago. As soon as the power went out I started a transition to freakout mode. My no-electricity panic stems from an ice storm twenty-five years ago. It...

My mother was born as the earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet in 1910. The comet had been reported in newspapers as an “evil eye in the sky”. “Comet May Kill All...

During World War II, there were several German POW camps in Wisconsin, where I grew up. In fact, 22,000 German prisoners were housed in the POW centers there. Many of them were put to...

Last week I called one of my friends in the town where we lived until a year and a half ago. She had left me a message a few weeks earlier but I knew...

I was alerted I hadn’t resized the picture of the Seattle public library before giving Mail Chimp the go-ahead to send the post. I think the building is so spectacular, it made me crazy...