The Wives are delivered! Friday November 2nd and Doozie is guarding the box. We celebrated by going to a FABULOUS concert by Rebecca Riots at Traditions. Saturday, November 3rd we tabled at the Tacoma Word event as a kickoff for The Wives of Marty Winters. Friends surprised us including Q who drove down from Seattle …
Volcano scribe Alec Clayton wrote a heartfelt tale Some irresistible people showed up and took over Alec Clayton’s mind. Marty Winters; his wild wife, Maria Perez; his second wife, Selena; their kids; and some good friends: They come to life in Clayton’s third novel. And beware: They’ll burrow into your mind, too. Read: The Wives …
Five years ago this week, the plane carrying Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila, their daughter Marcia, and campaign workers crashed on the Iron Range. I can’t help but wonder how the past five years might have been different in Washington if Paul were still there representing the principles he so proudly upheld. and You …
Meet our newest member of the family, Lulu. We decided that Doozie needed a pal so we got Lulu from the shelter. They are getting to know each other and doing pretty well at it. Lulu is about the same age as Doozie – one and a half. Her tail wags almost constantly doing a …
Rebecca Riots is three amazing singers/songwriters from Berkeley, California: Eve Decker, Lisa Zeiler, and Andrea Pritchett. They stopped playing together after I saw them here in Olympia a couple of times. Now they are back together which is very exciting. I can’t recommend them enough. They will be performing all over Oregon and Washington between …
Thanks to family and warm wishes from friends ~ my birthday on Sunday was a good one. Noel was here. He, Alec and Catherine took me out for a great dinner. Noel had his cat Linus with him to visit ours, Doozie. She likes that ~ she chased him around the house for two days. …
Compromise is the art of getting someone else thrown under the bus The title of this post is a comment I found at MetaFilter. It’s so perfect at describing the congressional haggling and backroom political smackdowns I’ve been privvy to in online and offline discussions about the current congressional session, that I just had to …