by Susan Matley | Sep 2, 2022 | Official Blog
This week is all about disruption. Monday morning at 7 AM the long anticipated landscaping crew arrived. Their mission that day was a tough one: weed the graveled strip alongside the driveway, remove a volunteer tree against the chain link fence, remove the gravel...
by Susan Matley | Aug 26, 2022 | Official Blog
Hey, everybody, I’m in print! What do you mean? Yeah. You look just the same as always. It’s not about how I look, 9, it’s that something I’ve written in now in the pages of a national magazine! Amazing. Have you hit the Big Time? ...
by Susan Matley | Aug 19, 2022 | Official Blog
Two weeks ago I witnessed and intervened in an unacceptable act of verbal aggression perpetrated on a public trail. This week I encountered another incident of normalized violence at Murr Sports Park, involving cruelty to animals. Seems I’m in activist mode- -no...
by Susan Matley | Aug 12, 2022 | Official Blog
Do you ever have a string of days when unusual things occur? That’s what my week has been like so far. Really? I don’t remember anything unusual happening. Are you sure, Lily? What about me doing a circuit on weight machines on Monday? Oh. That....
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...
