Dateline April 9, 2023: Come on Lily! Come on 9! We’re going on an expedition!   You mean an Easter egg hunt?   Great question but no, 9. I mean a real adventure. We’re going for a hike at Bennington Lake.   Isn’t it kind of cold for that?   Not if...

Walla Walla is home to an incredible number of people involved in history and the arts. Next week is filled with events of interest. As it happens, three of my women friends are part of it all!   Neat! Like the women I read about in biographies?   Yes, 9,...

Have you ever noticed how some things don’t matter unless you’re specifically forbidden to do them? I’m not speaking simple temptation here, I talking about restriction-created psychologically based hungers and cravings. The subject is fasting.   I get hungry...

It’s everywhere these days, on the internet and our doorsteps, in our inboxes and our mailboxes. You guessed it, I’m talking about Amazon.   Do you mean The Amazon, as in river, or Amazons, as in the warrior women of Greek myth?   We should be so lucky,...

Some weeks are filled with unusual things. This week is one of those weeks. Maybe it’s connected to Daylight Savings Time, everybody feeling a little bit “off” when our internal clocks are artificially messed with. Whatever the cause there are some mighty odd things...

Winter is nearly over in the Northern Hemisphere. In the technical sense, anyway. It’s been a long, cold haul for many of us. The sight of flowering bulbs pushing greenery through semi-frozen soil is balm for the winter-worn heart. But what about the rest of the body...