I had to say goodbye to a dear friend this week. He was just three years older than I am, but his health had been failing for the past several …
Now I lay me down to dream
My nighttime dreams have always been vivid and very real. When I was a 20-something, I did a little research into the meaning of dreams, which gave me just enough …
Just your average addiction
Before today, if you had asked me how often I am on my cell phone, I probably would have shrugged and said, “About average.”
My cell-phone bill remains pretty much the …
In celebration of beautiful writing
One of the things – and maybe the ONLY thing – I love about winter is the permission it gives us to hunker down and do whatever we want to …
Stretching beyond my borders
In four months I will be the age that my mother was when she died. I was 35, and she was 65. While I am convinced that you never completely …
When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight
There are things you take for granted about yourself. Things you just know. Things that don’t change, so they become part of the fabric of who you are.
For example, I …
The early dinner bell
It’s 6 p.m. on a Monday, and my husband dares to muse:
“Oh my. How old ARE we?!”
The exclamation is because, as I said, it’s 6 o’clock on a Monday night, …
Thank you for your service
The young Marine and his wife were seated at one of the best tables in the house at Seattle’s Palisade restaurant. They overlooked Elliott Bay with the impressive Seattle skyline …