The town where I lived before this had a bunch of large, city-wide festivals every year. We have a friend who spent a couple of months with us and he was amazed at the...
I remember an elderly woman I used to know who told me she was old enough to remember the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. She grew up in the mining country of North Idaho...
When I was growing up, my small town didn’t allow trick or treating. Someone told me it was because something dangerous had happened years ago. Someone else said it was to prevent Halloween pranks...
I was on my way out of a store yesterday and the customer in front of me was an elderly man, bent like a comma over his wheeled walker. He had on what my...
It started with a single bird feeder. When ingenious squirrels figured out how to get to it and to the suet cage, I decided I’d cater to the masses and bought another bird feeder....
Several years ago a friend and I went door to door before an upcoming election. We were given a list of people who were registered in our preferred party and were encouraged to make...
A baby gorilla was born at the Woodland Park Zoo here in Seattle a few months ago His mother had been raised by humans and, despite a bunch of gorilla-oriented parenting classes, she rejected...
A couple of days ago while I was searching the shelf of a grocery store for my favorite brand of peanut butter, a man stopped to tell me about the issues he was having...
Ever get pulled into a discussion that escalates and before you know it, becomes a back-and-forth anxiety session with a friend or somebody in your family? Someone you care about is worried and they...
On one of my regular walking routes I pass two of those “little free libraries”, where people both give and get stuff to read. I always look inside. Sometimes I take a book home,...
