January 3… Squak Mountain State Park.  Tony and I took the dogs on this trail.  Did 4 miles.  Pretty and green.  Trail length was 7 miles round trip.  I’ll have to go back on my own soon.
January 2010… Snowshoeing at Sun Mountain Lodge near Winthrop, WA.  Also, walking at Grande Vista Ranch at Carlton, WA
Weekdays.  […]

And I have felt
 

A presence that disturbs me with the joy
 

Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
 

Of something far more deeply interfused,
 

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
 

And the round ocean, and the living air,
 

And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,
 

A motion and a spirit, that impels
 

All thinking things, all objects […]

I think it is Tuesday, December 15…  Christmas is less than two weeks away.  It’s going to be a different kind of Christmas this year because of we are back at Stanford going through another cancer chapter with Matthew.
Matthew has been in the hospital a week.  He had the cancer cut out of his right […]

I returned from a trip down home about two months ago.  It was an unexpected trip to help my mom move out of her house into a retirement home.  My sister and I told her one night and moved her out the next day.  Sounds insensitive but we all figured the less time she had […]

I’m gonna write just cause I want to.  I’ve been feeling a need to but have not written much at all in the last couple of years.  I flew home to visit my mom recently and I sat by an interesting man on one leg of the trip.  He was a writer.  I don’t know […]

I just finished listening to my first book on CD… The Jungle written in the early 1900’s by Upton Sinclair.  I first heard of this book in a college US History class over 30 years ago.   All I remembered about it was that it was one of those books that brought to light social […]

I have redeemed myself…. I stewed over it all weekend but finally got on the treadmill this afternoon.  I have been running outside… on my way home from work… at the Sammamish River Trail in Bothell for the last month.   My treadmill died in early January and it took the repairman forever to get the […]

My last trip home I brought back a stone with the word “attitude” etched into it.  I had seen it laying around in my mom’s house for years and several times I had thought to ask if I could have it.   It always reminded me of the time my dad pulled me aside years […]

Pardon my language… but after watching some of the Republican Convention this week and especially hearing John McCain’s VP running mate, Sarah Palin, belittle, make fun of, personally attack Barack Obama…. my blood started to boil…  and I’m one who, in the past, has not been too interested in politics!!  About all I know… and […]

I returned from a week in Alaska not long ago.  We (my husband, me, and my sister) had planned to go back in the Fall of 2007, but dealing with Matthew’s cancer put the trip on hold for a while.   Anyway…I planned every detail of the trip… no tourist traps… I wanted to see […]