Greetings! Today’s topic is citizenship. No! Promise you won’t tell them about the Unsatisfactory in citizenship Miss Barton gave me in kindergarten! I think you just spilled those particular beans yourself, 9. The charge was alleged shoving at the water fountain. I’d...

Today we examine the concept “obsolete.” Our primary aid in this discussion is Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged Second Edition © 1979.   Wow, that’s a huge dictionary! And very modern, from the perspective of 1974.   I received this...

  Today's seemingly harmless topic is something that has plagued Lily, 9 and me our entire lives. I'm talking about hair. None of us are endowed with the thick, shiny, flowing tresses touted in commercials. To illustrate:       Mine nearly flows....

Insisting on summer. Because sometimes, if you don’t, it might not happen. . .

Smoke

Hey Lily! Hey 9! Are your heads still spinning from last weekend?   Our schedule was packed to the point of insanity, but it was fabulous to breathe clean air!   Why are our trips to Port Townsend always so busy?   For one thing, they are always...