Greetings! Our computer friends are taking a short break for setup, transfer, renewal and refreshment. Accordingly, the blog that they so kindly help us produce is on hiatus this week.     Best wishes from Lily, 9 and me. We’ll be back next...

Summer weather can be capricious, increasingly so as global warming (yes, it is real) sets in. Here in southeastern Washington State we’ve been getting our share of meteorological diversity. Intense heat. Downpours. Red Flag warnings (high heat, low humidity and high...

Sometimes, you just have to say no. Maybe you’ve been feeling it “in your gut” for a few days, or even a few weeks, when there’s something you’re scheduled to do but something doesn’t seem right. I was going through one of these feelings big time on Monday, about a...

These days, I have quite a collection of major and minor material items that make it possible to live and work the way I do. The major ones- -kitchen appliances, computers, and the like- -can be expensive to replace when the time comes, and the minor ones can add up,...

This month I’ve been up to my ears in volunteer work. I’ve performed in an historic cemetery tour, served as state convention delegate for a non-profit scholarship organization, participated in several rehearsals and script writing sessions for a July 4th performance...

At approximately 4:30 P today it will be one week since I placed the glucose monitor on the inside of my extremely nervous left thigh.   That, in itself, was a stressful experience (or, as I learned decades ago in stress management training “interesting and...