Well, tickets for Flock Fiber Fest are on sale again! This is the fourth year for the festival in Seattle and I am looking forward to another year. I don’t think I have any friends flying in as in past years so it will just be local friends but they aren’t as bad of enablers…
Category: Random And Wild
Progressive Cinco De Mayo On Wheels-Good Tacos In North Everett
I see people comment all the time on the socials, “Do we need yet another Mexican restaurant?” I say yes, yes we do. Especially if you want to do a progressive taco dinner on Cinco De Mayo without a car to participate in Bike Everywhere Month and support as many local Latino businesses as you…
Song Sung Blue: A Happy Life Has A Back Up Plan
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…
Do You T.H.I.N.K Before You Speak?
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….
A Post To Mark 10 Years Of Must Hike Must Eat
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,…
Book Review: The Cold Vanish And The New Wilderness
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…






