Two weeks ago I went to Home Depot to buy a paint brush. It was a hot day. Well, hot by Seattle standards, which probably doesn’t qualify as hot to people who live outside...

Several years ago I was at the Art Institute of Chicago when there was an exhibit of work by an architectural draftsman named A.G. Rizzoli. Unrelated to his normal professional architectural work, he spent...

A couple of weeks ago my husband and I scored a couple of tickets to see Paul Simon in Seattle. He’s been a musical hero of mine since the late sixties and I was...

When I was in elementary school sometimes on a Saturday I went to a friend’s house to play. She and I had fashion dolls that were precursors to Barbie, who hadn’t been “born” yet....

Last night I watched a Netflix documentary on Ed Sullivan. The same Ed Sullivan I disliked and disparaged for taking over our living room every Sunday night when I was a kid…………….until he brought...

“You from east of the mountains?” That’s what the checkout person at Ace Hardware asked me. He was putting my phone number in their system and was taken aback by my 509 area code....

“It’s a beautiful day in Three Lakes, Wisconsin.” That’s how the broadcast from the town near us invariably started. “It’s a beautiful day in Three Lakes, Wisconsin.” Might have been sunny and 75°.  Might...

From time to time I go online and research relatives.The older I get, the more I want to know about the people who were here before me. In my mind it’s a way of...

I’ve been watching a TV show called “The Last Alaskans”. The series follows seven families who each have a lease inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The leases last until the death of the...

I got a letter in the mail yesterday. It might well have been a love letter, from my overjoyed reaction. It was from the mother of a friend of my son’s. She lives about...