Some years ago — 15 to be exact — a friend gave me a copy of Beatrice Bruteau‘s Radical Optimism: Practical Spirituality in an Uncertain World. I have read this book several times, and when I came across it recently, I felt that the current political climate gave me call to revisit it. What I’ve realized, […]
As I believe I have mentioned (probably numerous times), I have been mucking out my writing cabin. To give credit where credit is due, the idea of hiring someone to help me came from my Writing Lab friend, Lori, who is going through this process in her entire house, and then from a new book, Minding […]
About “dh.” I don’t know the first thing about sports, or what exactly a “designated hitter” is. But I didn’t mean to suggest anything violent with the reference. No one is hitting anyone. It interests me, how even when communication gets strained my husband and I continue to work together and balance things out. One […]
I don’t know how I let ELEVEN days get away from me, without blogging. Oh, wait, I DO know: First week of teaching a class at my old college. Daughter number 1 moving back to Bellingham. Daughter number 2 working temporarily down at Pike Place Market and bumming rides from me (and her dad) while […]