This poster hangs in the hallway outside the student office at the school I work with and I have an opportunity to walk past it often. The first time I saw a similar poster was in the Head Start preschool I worked at years ago, my supervisor had hung it on the staff bulletin board….
I have had a Tonga Ridge snowshoe on my to-do list forever so with no trip report on the Foss River Road since November, I figured I would go check things out. I had considered Surprise Lake but with a considerable avalanche forecast, I opted for safety. I think to snowshoe on Tonga Ridge, you…
While on winter break last week, I decided to drive up US 2 to check on the closure and support a business in Skykomish which has been adversely affected by the severe lack of cross-state traffic since the middle of December. In case you missed it (not sure how you could have) but we had…
I wasn’t planning to post today but I realized that January 5th was the anniversary date for the blog and counting on my fingers I then realized that this anniversary marks 10 YEARS of writing in this space so I decided it was worth a short post. Yay, me! In honor of today,…
If there is one thing I learned in 2025, it is that I can not read and write at the same time. I set a goal at the beginning of the year to read at least 12 books (one a month) and actually managed to read 36 books! There were many things that I could…
Dearest Gentle Reader, As the last day of 2025 comes to end, I want to send you well wishes and warm thoughts as we say good-bye to all that was the old year and welcome a new one on the horizon. If you are reading this, you can count yourself as blessed to have made…