by Susan Matley | Aug 23, 2019 | Official Blog
I can feel its approach every minute of every day. Autumn. Lily, the 14-year-old person inside, can feel it, too. The hours of daylight decline. Tomorrow will give back 3 minutes and 1 second to the dark. Still, the days are light for nearly 14 hours. The...
by Susan Matley | Aug 16, 2019 | Official Blog
Summertime. I’m an avid vegetable gardener, so you know what’s coming: zucchini! Don’t worry, I’m not going to leave a boatload of it on your front porch, ring the bell and run. The fact is, I solved the problem of excess zucchini last year. I found a nifty way...
by Susan Matley | Aug 8, 2019 | Official Blog
Everyone who’s lost someone dear has a lot of “firsts” to face the year following their loved one’s death. Bruce was born August 7, 1948. This Wednesday was his first birthday without him. My inner fourteen-year-old Lily and I put our heads together and decided that,...
by Susan Matley | Aug 2, 2019 | Official Blog
My good friend Lily, aka the 14-year-old person inside, cheerfully provokes me on a regular basis. This week, she critiqued my fashion sense: Your gray sweatpants are twice as old as I am! They look dorky. You’ve got those sparkly NIKE leggings Bruce bought you...
by Susan Matley | Jul 26, 2019 | Official Blog
The Person Inside (she says her name is Lily) traveled with me this week to our home town, Port Townsend, Washington. I used to live here too, you know. But. . .hey, it’s kind of different. . . She’s right. Town has changed a lot in the 45 years since...
by Susan Matley | Jul 19, 2019 | Official Blog
Last Sunday afternoon I met a friend downtown for iced coffee. As I ambled back to the car, replete with a tall skinny iced mocha for the first time in years, I noticed a poster for classes at the local dance studio taped inside a storefront window. I’ve been thinking...
