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...
My dog is insistent about routines. Much more so than any dog I’ve had in the past. It’s extremely important to her that we do the same things at the same times. When it...
Last weekend I happened to be in the next suburb over. It’s a tourist-y place, probably because the ferry to Whidbey Island comes and goes there. It was a nice day and when I...
It was time for a Costco toilet paper run and I decided to go first thing when they opened in the morning, something I’d never done. I got gas at the station there and...
Wednesday is Garbage Day. I don’t have anything against Wednesdays. It just happens to be the day our trash is picked up every week. And our compost bin is emptied. And, every other...
I used to have a couple of bee hives and I loved my girls. I say “girls” because it’s the females who do all the work, unless you count impregnating the queen as “work”....
