Get Up Ev’rybody And Sing!

We like to sing in this home. I do not mean trained, you should try out for a Hollywood competition; WOW! that was amazing kind of singing. No. Here we just burst out in song over the silliest things, often at the most unexpected times. A bit like living in a musical, without a script […]

To Hear Birdsong

Last night I dreamed about our old neighborhood fire station, again. It is a dream I have off and on, with no particular point to it, or message from it that I can discern. I am just happy when I do dream about it, and always wake with a sense I have been home. In […]

To Mr. Putin, With Love…

The Budapest Memorandum, January 14, 1994: The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine … to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine…. Yours Truly, Bill Clinton, John Majors, Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kuchma And here we are […]

That’s The Way The Cookie Crumbles

Girl Scouts and I never were a good match. I was their most reluctant member, a joiner at the insistence of my mother, the one who really wanted the Scouting experience. As the time approached for me to sign up, she and I went at it hammer and tong over all the reasons I should […]

Froggy Went A Gigging And He Did Go, Oh No

Unmistakable signs of spring are popping up and out in our central Oregon coastal village. My favorite, besides the geese returning, would be the bazillion frogs that live at the lake a few blocks from our house. They are emerging from their hibernation, and croaking fills the evenings with a raucous, yet undisturbing, chorus of […]