by Susan Matley | Oct 8, 2021 | Official Blog
How often do two nouns that start with the letters “gn” crop up in one’s life in the same week? I have had such a week, the first in nearly sixty-two years. I have come to possess both a garden gnome and a package of gnocchi. We have gnats, too. But no gnus. So...
by Susan Matley | Oct 1, 2021 | Official Blog
Last weekend I did the craziest imaginable thing. I undertook the devilish hard task of digging up and dividing a bearded iris bed woven as tight as jacquard tweed. What appeared to be a few bearded irises resided against the south wall of our yard when we took...
by Susan Matley | Sep 24, 2021 | Official Blog
If you live in Walla Walla, or even if you don’t and are incredibly “in the know,” you know that on the third weekend of September we celebrate a favorite native son, Adam West. I know! I was there with you in 2019! It was such fun!! It must have been if...
by Susan Matley | Sep 17, 2021 | Official Blog
Last week brought a landmark loss. My dear friend and writing mentor, Kathleen “Kathy” Beck, died at the age of 89. I’m sorry. Me, too. Thank you, Lily, thank you 9. Kathy lived with Alzheimer’s disease for nine years. For a...
by Susan Matley | Sep 10, 2021 | Official Blog
At Sundown this past Monday, Rosh Hashanah began. I learned about the Jewish New Year festival while researching Beyond Big-G City. If you read this book (and I dearly hope you did because it’s mine, mine, mine!) you may recall David Bernstein’s foster parents were...
