by Susan Matley | Aug 5, 2022 | Official Blog
Have you ever been somewhere in public, in a peaceful place that’s supposed to be for everyone’s use and enjoyment, and witness an unbelievable act of aggression? Like when we were out Trick-or-Treating and those mean high school boys kicked a hole in David’s...
by Susan Matley | Jul 29, 2022 | Official Blog
Greetings from sunny Walla Walla. Extraordinarily sunny and hot Walla Walla. We are in the middle of a week-long heat wave with highs in the triple digits. As I write this (Thursday evening) the mercury has just edged from 105 to 106. Yes, it is dry heat. Dry like an...
by Susan Matley | Jul 22, 2022 | Official Blog
Greetings! These past several weeks it seems that I’ve been writing about sad and serious things, always looking for that nugget of good, that silver lining, of course, but. . .This week it’s time to reset my palate and veer toward things that are more casual, more...
by Susan Matley | Jul 15, 2022 | Official Blog
Call it by whatever name you will, life has its seasons. Shakespeare famously visited this theme in his “seven ages of man” speech, given by melancholy Jaques in As You Like It. It’s the monologue that begins with “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women...
by Susan Matley | Jul 8, 2022 | Official Blog
July, the month of patriotism in America. Or these days, maybe not. Patriotism, in my view, requires courage. Lately there’s been precious little of this coming out of the branch of our federal government known as the Supreme Court. But I digress. Today I am...
