You know how someone tells you a compelling story, and you believe their story is true, and the urge to help them becomes a call to action? So you help them. But after a while things don't quite line up. The person who told the story is acting in ways that make you...

Hey Lily! Hey 9! Have you noticed anything unusual going on outside lately?   Not freezing rain again! Or a possum in the shed!   No, nothing like that. Have you looked up in the sky lately? It’s lighter for longer outside! Today in Walla Walla we are...

Inspired by a banned book puzzle I’d received for my birthday in 2023, I resolved to read the list of banned books included with the puzzle. I made significant progress in 2024 with 24 titles read, reviewed and shared on Facebook. In 2025 my activity dropped off to 9...

The end of 2025 draws near, and with it my realization that, while all years include change, some years hold more transformative changes than others.   Like that wonderful year I discovered my love of theater.   Or that horrible year when Nixon won the...

  It is definitely the season for “visions of sugarplums.”  Our friends at Merriam-Webster online dictionary define a sugarplum as “a small candy in the shape of a ball or disk”- -   Yay!   I like your enthusiasm, 9, but let me be clear. For the...

Hey, Lily! Hey, 9! Here we are, already on the twelfth day of (say it with me):   Advent Bowl! Advent Bowl! Advent Bowl!   For those who are late arrivals to this blog or only drop in occasionally, this is who we are and what we’re talking about. Lily is my...