We will be going to this Monday night’s talk at Sea View Theatre by New York Times best-selling author Frans de Waal about his book, Are We Smart Enought to Know How Smart Animals Are? It starts at 6:30 and is free. I don’t normally post things before they happen, but …
Tonight was one of my favorite annual events on Orcas Island – the kids’ talent show called Whale of a Show. It’s not a contest. No one is judged and no one wins. It’s a night devoted to kids who have the courage to perform any talent they choose, up …
I wish I had a photo of it. Do I? Somewhere? I had found a very long piece of driftwood. I brought it inside to the kitchen table and had a ball painting it. I colorfully and glitteredly wrote, “God please bless the garden” (I didn’t leave enough room for …
It wasn’t until I married an avid triathlete and Tour de France fan that Lance Armstrong became a common household name for me. Had he not made the choice to cheat and then lie repeatedly about it, this morning would have been a very different thing for us – excited …
Just returned from camping on Sucia Island before the weather gets iffy. Our younger boy’s summer birthday wish granted a tad late. A perfect three-day window of perfect air, perfect temperature, penetrating sunshine, and the island almost all to ourselves. Three full days of sun book-ended beforehand by a full …
Cussing, lewdness, condescension, and lying are not welcome in our home; nor on my blog. I find it ironic that the one post that includes all of these comes from the mouth of the current president of the United States… “I did try and fuck her. She was married…I moved …
Every island here has its own flavor – things that make it distinct from the others. One has more farmland. One has the highest “mountain” on the islands. A lot of them lack electricity. Most of them lack stores. Canoe Island is distinct because it is synonymous with French Camp. …
I have a very distant memory of being outside late at night under the moon’s light in between some lit buildings where nuns were bustling around doing something very productive for the sake of other people. I was there with my mom and I remember thinking that night, ‘I don’t …
Go no further in this post if your life is a chair of bowlies. Because you won’t understand. A friend of mine from high school once told me that she never confided in me from afar (we live thousands of miles away from each other) because she assumed that everything …
This is one of the most beautiful times of the year to kayak along our coast. The air isn’t chilly yet and the water is crystal clear. On the right day, it’s pure perfection. The smoke of the past month has mostly cleared. The thick orange mass of lightning-fast-multiplying microbuddies …
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