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I need to buy an apron I baked cookies with my granddaughter on Friday. That is, I sliced a roll of cookie dough I bought from the grocery store onto a baking sheet. We put them in the oven and … Read More

Nor is Tim Walz a “yah, you betcha” hotdisher I was born in Minnesota and it’s where I am from. I lived there longer than anywhere else, raised my children there, and had my career there, mostly. In my last … Read More

The beautiful landscapes others seldom see Enchanted Valley is the place name of the valley in the Quinault Rainforest, part of the Olympic National Park. I took many smaller roads from the interstate and drove an hour without going through … Read More

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Freedom Singer, founded Sweet Honey in the Rock Bernice Johnson Reagon went home, over the River Jordan, on Friday. With the presidential sweepstakes taking the news attention, it might be easy to overlook the great musician who … Read More

When family needs and individual needs collide The hospital social worker called me and told me my aunt had checked herself out of the geriatric mental health unit, where she was for treatment of depression, against medical advice. I sighed … Read More

What are your outcomes: surgery, treatment, grieving? Surgery recommendations have been a part of my life for the past year. While I have felt halt and lame, my goal is to be hale and hearty and live fully, not merely … Read More

Manage Your Influencers I spent too much time four years ago obsessing over the state of the world. We were in Covid times, and I had lost all sense of control. None of us were in control. I tried to … Read More

When my elderly aunt with no children died, we, the nephews and nieces close by, hosted her memorial service for her friends in the nursing home and the city. She had outlived many of her contemporaries, so it was a … Read More

The Harmonic Chords of a Train Whistle A freight train rolls by on the tracks, and the engineer pulls the whistle, which reverberates across the river and comes back as an echo. The right combination of speed, the Doppler effect, … Read More

Sorry I have not posted for awhile, but the website went down for reasons I don’t understand and came back online for reasons I don’t understand. I do understand that a writer these days must become minimally technically proficient, which … Read More