
Treasured Time with Family Visitors
This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are

This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are

Last week, I had cataract surgery on my right eye. The left eye is scheduled

My father used to tell me, “It never rains in the Pacific Northwest.” That was
I’ve recently read two articles that made me think about the importance of telling our
I’ve posted about other haunting books set during wartime (see here and here). The Book

Even before I met my mother-in-law-to-be, I wrote her. It was shortly before Mother’s Day
Although many posts on this blog are about my life, I don’t aspire to write

I recently got new eyeglasses. I’ve needed corrective lenses since I was eight and a

I wrote last week about getting Covid after four years of apparently avoiding it. Unfortunately,
In the midst of the pandemic, we are all looking for little moments of joy,

This past weekend, my son and his wife visited from Brooklyn, New York. They are
We are in the final days now before my husband and I move to our
There’s been a lot in the news in recent years about infrastructure. Which projects are

My husband was recently hospitalized for complications related to his Parkinson’s disease. I took him
I feel like a curmudgeon this year because our house is one of only two
By mid-August the emigrants traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1840s had passed Fort Hall.
When my daughter was in preschool, she was afraid of many things. Santa Claus, Disney
I wrote last month about Ayers Natural Bridge, and its fame as a day trip
I’ve lived at both ends of the Oregon Trail. I grew up in eastern Washington
On one of the spring vacations my family took, we were in a gift shop
One of the more sensational stories of the Oregon Trail is that of the Donner