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The bathroom scale was not my friend last week. I had gone for a long time without getting on it and when I finally did, I was convinced it must be wrong. I remember...
The Grand Coulee Dam is ninety miles west of where we live. We’d passed it plenty of times, even gawked at it up close yet had never taken a tour. I decided it was...
My husband does not like to plan ahead. He loves to quote the old military saying, “to plan ahead is to plan twice”. I learned this a few hours after we were married —...
I called our cat this morning and wondered why it is that cats all seem to respond to “kitty, kitty, kitty”. People who speak other languages — how do they call their cats? In...
While living in Texas in the 1980’s, we happened upon a local restaurant called Tom and Joe’s. It was typical diner fare: burgers and fries, chef salads, malts, milkshakes and more. It was fun...
I spend a lot of time in hot water. Literally. I lie in the bathtub every morning and in the hot tub each night. The thing that’s important is that I lie or float...
Our house is close to a highway. This kind of just happened. We moved here and needed a place to live. The people who owned the house had moved to Alaska and desperately needed...
I love Facebook. I know a lot of people who think it dangerous, too time consuming, prohibitive of real relationships, addictive and more. It may be all those things. Yet I adore Facebook. Because...
When I was eleven, a chicken farmer in our small town claimed he’d been visited by extraterrestrials. Through pantomime they asked for water and in return gifted him with three burned pancakes, one of...
I went to a quilt show yesterday. It was an absolutely beautiful display of quilts in all colors and sizes — some completed with great expertise, some by slightly less accomplished quilters. Several were...