When we lived on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, our house had a tall power generating windmill in the yard. It had been disconnected by the previous owners yet the infrastructure connecting it...
There are people who clean up messes. Physical messes. They come into the classroom and mop up after a kid gets sick. They make office building or airport bathrooms bearable. They lovingly clean old...
I have a little handmade doll that I love. I bought her from an old woman fifteen years ago in Mexico when that woman and her daughter came to the place where I was...
Once when I was struggling with a decision, I took a long walk and was aware of a raven trailing close, watching me and occasionally calling out. Since then I see ravens everywhere. A...
When our kids were young, we lived in Texas and spent one of our spring break weeks camping at Big Bend National Park. Men from the village of Boquillas del Carmen, just across the...
Periodically I enroll in an adult ed conversational Spanish program offered through the local community college — I’m in one of those classes now. The teacher is from Chile so has a different accent...
My life seems to run more smoothly if I do some inspirational and self growth reading early in the morning, before my day gets in full swing. I reflect my way through several pages...
Yesterday was May 1st. May Day. I did some research and found that in the late 19th century, May 1st was designated International Workers’ Day. According to Wikipedia, in 1927 the voice call “Mayday”...
I’ve had an obsession with the Columbia River for years and touring the Grand Coulee Dam re-ignited that. The Columbia River has fourteen dams between its source in British Columbia and the Pacific Ocean...
On Valentine’s Day a couple of years ago my husband bought me a half pound of See’s chocolate covered caramels — he knows that I consider this the best candy of all time, hands...
