Nov 12, 2013 | Blog
1. It’s icy. Be careful driving and walking. 2. The keep the Chilkat River Beaches non-motorized ordinance has a first hearing tonight at 6:30. If you can’t make it contact an assembly person to voice support. What a great thing the assembly can do for us...Nov 11, 2013 | Blog
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month since WW I ended 95 years ago I was babysitting my granddaughters, the great-grandchildren of two WW I veterans. At the close of the day I met with the recent widow of a WW II veteran to write his obituary by the...Nov 10, 2013 | Blog
“Do what must be done with special care and zeal so that doing it can change our consciousness and carve our souls into the kind of beauty that comes from simple things. It is so easy to go through life looking feverishly for special ways to find God when God is...Nov 8, 2013 | Blog
It is always a mistake to check my own books’ Amazon reviews, but Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs has been having a good run lately, so I stopped in. I should have known better. What a mistake. Here is the “most recent” review: ...Nov 7, 2013 | Blog
Here is a pointer, in case you smash the tip of your finger in a wood-splitter and it swells up and hurts like heck. Don’t unwind a paper clip and sterilize the end with a match and press into the nail. That won’t work. Also, a needle probably won’t...Nov 5, 2013 | Blog
Ever have one of those moments, when for just a second, everything fits, in a kind of Karmic way? That happened to me yesterday. I was already thinking about saints, and all the people I knew who are no longer with us, as Sunday was All Saints Day at church, when we...