I have expectations. Lots of them. A lot of the time. And I’m sad when they aren’t met. Some of my expectations have to do with people not behaving like I had hoped they...
Not too long ago I re-watched the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird”. One of my favorite things is Boo Radley leaving secret treasures for the kids to find in the hollow of a tree...
I love walking. And I like what Bill Bryson writes about walking. Walking versus hiking, I mean. He cites the fact that people in the British Isles walk all over the place. Sometimes that...
A couple of weeks ago I walked past a house where a woman was digging a trench near the sidewalk and planting several somethings. I couldn’t tell for sure what they were. Yesterday I...
I went through the checkout at the grocery store yesterday and I guess I probably mouthed the obligatory Pacific Northwest, “Hey, howya doin’? to the cashier. She answered quite seriously, “To tell you the...
When I was about six, a relative brought me a present of some little dolls made of soap. They were about four inches tall and there were six or eight of them lined up...
I posted this several years ago but I’m still in Memorial Day mode so if you missed it: In the small town where I grew up, the high school band on Memorial...
I was having so much fun focusing on my post about when the guy told me, “the Marines would have been all over you”. I didn’t bother to think about accuracy. My bad. Armistice...
This is Memorial Day weekend. After World War I, it was known as Armistice Day and when I was growing up, it was called Veterans Day. It was just one day then, not a...
The post office had a food drive a couple weeks ago. Blue plastic bags to be filled with non-perishable items were left at each of our mailboxes and a postal worker was scheduled to...
