Hey there! Did ya have a good Fourth of July?!
The 4th here was great. And I have a video of the fireworks we saw in our little Bainbridge Island harbor to prove it.
Ah, yes, it was lovely. I even ran my second 5K that morning and managed to move around afterwards [...]
[Okay, I'm 29, not really, 39 43 and not waaaaaay into my 40's, so I may need to amend this list in a few years to add more data for you young'uns.]
This is my Public Service Announcement for women out there younger than I am.
See, I give back but no, you can’t have [...]
This year I was tortured, beaten and blackmailed and began volunteering for a writers organization on Bainbridge called Field’s End. It’s for a good cause, as they say (if you’re going to write, doing it better would be nice for the rest of us).
Turns out, there are lots of writers on this island, speaking [...]
Our island is generally reluctant in the face of change. Ask anyone who lived here when “the roundabout” was installed or the McDonald’s showed up or the main road got paved or…
And we do have our share of domestic violence.
So, I guess it was just a matter of time before [...]
In case you didn’t know, I’m a Netflix user. I love it. My queue (a stored list of movies to rent) is over 300 movies long.
And while sometimes the hubs get a vote in what movie I add to the queue, mostly the list is mine, run completely by me, with some [...]
Did you read about Ben & Jerry’s latest new flavor of ice cream, the Yes, Pecan! flavor? I haven’t sucked down a whole pint yet tasted it yet, but only because I object to the whole notion.
Yes! (let’s just go with the exclamation points today), I may have voted for the man, and I [...]
Well, probably nothing.
How much would you pay for a glass of iced tea? $1? $2? What if it were an iced oolong tea? $2.50?
Well, my little, highfalutin (did you know that’s one word? me neither) island’s teahouse charges $3.75. No free refills. Not a Big Gulp size, [...]
