Last weekend my friend Diane and I went to see Neil Diamond’s musical, A Beautiful Noise, at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. She had seen it in New York a few years ago and as soon as she saw it would be playing here, she got us tickets. We have been best friends…
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 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…
When is a missed turn for a trailhead not a missed opportunity but a fantastic turn of events? Last October, Elizabeth and I had plans to head to Siouxon Creek for a hike outside Yacolt, Washington near Mount St. Helens and were so busy chatting, we missed the turn to the trailhead. Even though we…