My husband, Weldon, and I, now in our early 80s, moved into what would become our dream home twenty-six years ago—a downtown Seattle condominium with large windows facing bustling Elliott Bay. At any one time we can look out those …
When I started working at the US Environmental Protection Agency, people asked me how I could work in a boring bureaucracy. It even sounds boring – bureaucracy. A bureau is a drab piece of furniture. Functional, but mundane. Whose favorite …
I never wanted to go to Nashville before. Truthfully, I rarely want to go anywhere. For one thing, I hate to fly. And also, new experiences tend to fill me with dread. But halfway through Ken Burns’ epic documentary for …
I once read that the first child in a family is either artistic or academic. The second child is the opposite of whatever the first child is. But the third child, unable to put herself in one of these two …
I’m 75 years old and, at the time of writing (October 2022), President Putin is threatening a nuclear war, my boiler is misbehaving, and governmental fiscal foolishness is knocking a big hole in my pension pot. So why am I …
I do word and number puzzles while I watch baseball on TV: New York Times crosswords and acrostics, sudokus, KenKens. My baseball savvy and Yankees keenness come in handy on the clues that lead to A-Rod, Mo Rivera, Yogi Berra, …
Nothing was ever the same after Uncle Frank got out of the Army.
My Uncle Frank was one of my father’s younger brothers, out of a total of eight siblings. Attention was hard to get with so many children, though …
Every summer there was a flurry of excitement when we started seeing Circus Vargas posters around town. We watched with great anticipation for the circus trucks to pull into town. On the day their trucks rolled into the Korvett’s parking lot all of the neighborhood …
She’s the most famous person you’ve probably never heard of.
Another awards season has come and gone without any mention of her contributions to any of the media she dominated – vaudeville, radio, TV, movies, theater. Is it because she …
Fay and Jeannie are best friends. You might not know it if you approached them in the hall.
Jeannie would be looking down at the floor, maybe peaking up at you with her head down and her eyes raised. A kind …