Each of us started as somebody’s baby. I’m not so naive as to think that every one of us was totally wanted, cooed over, encouraged and taken good care of — but sometimes when...
When I was in the fourth grade our class staged a mini Olympics. We studied the different competitive events and tried to figure out ways we could reenact them on the dirt playground in...
In north central Oregon next to the Columbia River are a multitude of windmills — one after another, stretching to the horizon. In that section of highway lies Shepherds Flat, one of the largest...
We learn in different ways. Some of us are visual learners, some are auditory and some of us learn kinesthetically. My son, who is an elementary school teacher, came up with a categorization that...
When I woke up this morning I noticed a spider web about three feet away on the bedroom windowsill, connecting a candle holder there to the adjacent window frame. It’s not unusual that a...
Two days ago I went to Costco right before dinner and broke one of the cardinal rules of shopping: Thou shalt not set foot in a Costco store with an empty stomach. If samples...
Last week I drove past a tree farm next to the freeway along the Columbia River in eastern Oregon — not an average growing operation and nothing at all like any commercial farm acreage...
The other day at the grocery store the kid who bagged my stuff walked out into the parking lot with me and when we got to my car, wondered if he could ask me...
We had four campsites next to one another at our annual family camping trip last week, all four adjacent to the ocean. This didn’t just happen — my husband got up early one morning...
I was camping with my whole family on a beautiful northwest Pacific beach several days ago and was determined to find a time to get into the ocean. I love swimming in salt water...
