In the city where my daughter and family live there is a busy intersection under major construction. This particular roadway is at the...

Back in the early-60’s, I walked hand-in-hand with my grandmother in her rural town. We had driven the twenty miles from the ranch. Most...

As a child, I loved purple. My bedroom walls were all purple, which perfectly matched my purple curtains and bedspread.   I wore as much...

I had the best week. I didn’t read the news, nor did I accomplish much work. I spent my time playing. It  was easy to do with my...

I didn’t realize that there was an actual International Eat An Apple Day. It’s the third Saturday of September. The timing fits nicely...

Typically, I’m tethered to my phone, responsive to texts, emails, and calls. But for two days, my husband and I would be hiking with our...

“I don’t want to go!” I wailed. I thought if I could just live with Grandma on her farm I wouldn’t have to back to school. Grandma knelt...

Something big is missing in this photo. Let me explain.   Here in my hometown, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe prepared a parcel of land...

Fifty years ago, I attended a high school leadership camp. It was designed to be a mixture of fun and instructive activities that would...

I was just a few minutes later than usual getting to my bus, and by the time I boarded a young woman had taken my favorite seat. So much...

We were hacking our way through the thick underbrush. The land had been logged some years prior, and now hearty undergrowth was competing...

I watched the bicyclist  approach the bus driver to ask how much the fare to Seattle was. He had a French accent. The driver told him,...

My mom and her sister spent many childhood summers at a small rustic cabin deep in the woods next to a pristine lake. They hiked, fished,...

We’d been storing the huge window panel in our shed—it was being kept for “one of those days” when it could be used for a greenhouse. So,...

During the summer months, in an outside seating area, a delightfully painted piano sits with a sign that says, “Play me”. It was just...

I was visiting my grandparents at their remote cabin, deep in the woods of Northern Idaho. Read: no electricity or indoor bathroom. They...

It had been blistering hot on my grandpa’s wheat ranch. We’d gotten the call that harvest would be a week sooner because it was nearly...

There was once a reality show about shedding for the wedding—it was a couples’ competition to see who could lose the most weight to win a...

I had my excuses for taking the low road, but Dad wasn’t accepting them. At the time, I could blame my parent’s divorce, a difficult new...

Walking back from the library, my granddaughter exclaimed, “I’m going to climb that.” I looked over at the daycare play structures we...