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I’m convinced I have a little gypsy blood because there’s nothing I like better than going places. We have a small teardrop camper and I keep a deck of Tarot cards in there, just...
When I started writing my Lightly Tethered blog more than ten years ago, just for fun I advertised with my Facebook friends for a muse. A long-time friend responded and even went so far...
According to A-I: “He who laughs last, laughs best” (or longest/loudest) means the person who succeeds or has control in the end wins, even if others seemed to have an advantage earlier.” (Yellow highlighting...
Our son was out of town for a couple of weeks and his dog stayed with us. We’ve always had a dog, often multiple dogs at one time, for all of our fifty-plus years...
A friend I met at a writing workshop sent me an article by a woman named Dr Nadine Levy. The lead-in was “What If Your Life Turned Out To Be Ordinary?” I don’t know...
One of our granddaughters sings in the Seattle Children’s Choir and of course, we go to the concerts. At the last one, there was a boy about ten years old in the group and...
My husband’s mother had a crazy saying she threw into conversations every now and then: “Well, sew buttons on a chimney.” She used it kind of like Tony Soprano would shrug and say, ‘Whaddaya...
I live in Seattle, a city that would seem large enough to support a number of good sized fabric stores. That’s not the case. There are some smallish specialty fabric places that have lovely...
I know a woman who, when her adult son died, included the cause of death in his obituary. It was alcoholism. I’ve never seen anyone do that. Alcoholism can be an embarrassment. People are...
The saltwater park where I like to walk is located high on a bluff with beautiful views of the Olympic Peninsula across the Puget Sound. Stairs from the parking lot go down to the...
