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...

  A few weeks ago I met one of our sons at the Seattle Central Library downtown. I’d been there before I lived here but I’d forgotten what an architectural masterpiece that building is....

I was thinking about a girl who was in my kindergarten class. In the 1950’s and 60’s, we hadn’t yet learned to use words like indigenous or Native American or First People. She was...

The grocery stores were extra busy over the holiday season. Checkout lines tend to snake down the aisles of the stores a lot of the time anyway because the checkers here can be kind...

Contrary to folklore, kids in far northern Wisconsin are not born with skates on their feet. But the small community of Eagle River, where I grew up, did a lot to foster a love...