I worked full time as a massage therapist for almost 30 years. The massage school stressed over and over how important it was to realize how strongly the profession is focused on Service. With...
One of my earliest memories is walking to City Hall with my mother on Election Day. City Hall was a two-story brick building two blocks from our house. The fire department occupied the majority...
Yesterday I saw an article in the Seattle Times about a house here on Lake Washington, on the east side of Seattle. It is owned by an heir to the Scripps broadcasting fortune and...
So many things in my life have come about because of the serendipitous influence of another person. Somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody. I met my husband because my high school English teacher...
I saw a cartoon where some guy was trying to reach bank customer service on his phone and the recording said, “Please listen carefully as some of our options have changed. To speak to...
In the “old days” either my husband or I would drive and the other would act as navigator when we traveled someplace unfamiliar. Now, just like pretty much everybody else, we use GPS. It’s...
This has felt like a summer of loss. My brother died in July and a longtime friend who was a major influence in both my and my husband’s life died in June. I got...
When I was out walking yesterday I passed a chalk hopscotch grid drawn on the sidewalk in a nearby neighborhood. It made me happy to see kids are still doing that and I wondered...
Summer and smoke. I remembered it as a title and had to stoop to using the internet to remind me what it was. A Tennessee Williams play, made into a steamy-for-the-times movie I was...
The population of Seattle engages in an ongoing war with blackberries. When I first moved here I found it hard to believe because I grew up in such anticipation of blackberry picking with my...
