"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."- Robert Louis Stevenson climbing wall I didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions this year. I didn’t resolve to eat fewer sweets and more veggies or to exercise more or clean out the cupboard--although...
A Time for Everything
One of President John F. Kennedy’s favorite bible verses was from the Book of Ecclesiastes. It begins like this: “There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a...
Old Friendships & Christmas Cards
Movin’ On: When Lee, my fifth-grade boyfriend, moved, we didn’t think to exchange addresses. He was gone. That was that. When I graduated from high school, I assumed I’d see my high school friends again—as long as they came back home for the summer or attended our...
Satisfying Story Endings, Fictional & Real
In the evening, I often watch a drama on TV. Yesterday it was Law & Order--not for the violence. No. I watched it, because I knew that by the end of the hour, the mystery of who committed the crime would be solved. They would be caught and found guilty and Justice...
A Rainy-Day Walk through West Hylebos Wetlands
It was my middle daughter’s birthday week, and the forecast was for rain. Daughter #1 brought a big chocolate cake with cherries and whipped cream frosting, and we’d chosen a dim-sum place for lunch. So we could have skipped the walk. But we came prepared with rain...
Happy United Nations Day
UN Day During most of my kids’ schooling, from pre-school through high school, their biggest school holiday celebration was UN Day, October 24 (today). What else could an international school celebrate? With such a mix of students from all over the world, they...
End of Summer Interlude and “On Children”
sunrise, Whidbey Island After high school, your children fly away to college. After that, they fly away on other adventures and to jobs and husbands or wives. If we're lucky, they come back ... for a while. Last week was one such time. It was the last week of summer,...
When Something New Comes into My Life, I Look for a Book
The something new I’m talking about is something that's more than a simple fact I can google. No. It's something really big … like marrying a guy from China. I figured I needed a book for that. I suppose there could have been other ways to respond to my lack of...
