We knew an arborist who died a couple of years ago. He wanted to be buried in a plain pine box without being embalmed, and after a bunch of searching he located a cemetery...
Last year my husband and I spent a few weeks in Great Britain. The people were super friendly and we had a great time. Naturally we ate a fair number of traditional meat pies...
I know quite a few people who are hanging on to their old flip phone rather than switching to a so-called smart phone. For some it seems to be a dislike of change. For...
When I was fourteen and babysitting for my brother’s kids, a small brown bat came down the chimney in his living room and sat there stunned, in the cold empty hearth. It was late...
The bathroom scale was not my friend last week. I had gone for a long time without getting on it and when I finally did, I was convinced it must be wrong. I remember...
The Grand Coulee Dam is ninety miles west of where we live. We’d passed it plenty of times, even gawked at it up close yet had never taken a tour. I decided it was...
My husband does not like to plan ahead. He loves to quote the old military saying, “to plan ahead is to plan twice”. I learned this a few hours after we were married —...
I called our cat this morning and wondered why it is that cats all seem to respond to “kitty, kitty, kitty”. People who speak other languages — how do they call their cats? In...
While living in Texas in the 1980’s, we happened upon a local restaurant called Tom and Joe’s. It was typical diner fare: burgers and fries, chef salads, malts, milkshakes and more. It was fun...
I spend a lot of time in hot water. Literally. I lie in the bathtub every morning and in the hot tub each night. The thing that’s important is that I lie or float...
