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?  ...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Greetings! These past several weeks it seems that I’ve been writing about sad and serious things, always looking for that nugget of good, that silver lining, of course, but. . .This week it’s time to reset my palate and veer toward things that are more casual, more...