“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ~ George Eliot We made it, kids. Fall is here. Fall is my favorite. Here are three fall-ish things. SOMETHING I’M LISTENING TO: MY INTUITION Yeah, so I’m still listening […]
Month: September 2017
Three Things, Issue Nine
This week’s Three Things is brought to you courtesy of my recent road trip to the Oregon Coast. Some people are road trip people. I am not that person. But anytime you pack yourselves into a Prius and travel for five hours in any direction, things happen. Here’s what happened to me. SOMETHING I’M LISTENING […]
On The Occasion Of Our Anniversary
Today, I’ve been married 28 years. Marriage is hard. If you were hoping for a photo of a vase of flowers and a card and some generic platitude about “being married to my best friend” and how “I’d do it all over again” I’d suggest you move on down your Facebook feed or on to another […]
Three (Kinda Different) Things, Issue Eight
Hurricanes, floods, fires and earthquakes. Here’s things about three of them. SOMETHING I FEAR: HURRICANES I was a swaddled babe in arms when the infamous Columbus Day storm hit the Pacific Northwest. My family had just moved into our newly-built home in Lakewood, Washington that my architect-wannabe father and his (actual) architect friends had designed […]
Three Things (within three things, so really–nine things), Issue Seven
In honor of Labor Day, Walter Becker’s passing, the fact that the entire country is either on fire, under water (or soon to be) and North Korea’s continuing to focus its sights on blowing us up in a mighty mushroom cloud, I’m keeping it simple this week. Here are three things within three things. THREE […]