fiction Smile... fiction "Let me look at it." "It's fine. Really. I've had worse." Dani sighed, "I know you've had worse. But at least let me look at it. Did they break anything?" Audrey gave a small half smile with
rambling What Files? One of my oddest memories of when Brent's dad died happened on the day of his funeral. Bill Richardson, who was then the Governor of New Mexico, called to speak with Ann and give her his condolences. She would not take the call. I remember thinking...Daaaaamn.... and
rambling Gymnastics We were listening to OPB this morning on the way to breakfast and they were talking about the cherry harvest this year and how farmers were having a hard time bringing in the crop. The one report was that an average orchard would normally do 600 bushels in a day
rambling If You Can Keep It... I am really bummed that the BBB will be signed into law today. Not just because it will strip healthcare from millions, not just because it will explode the debt by trillions, not just because it will fund the American Stasi to continue and expand their reign of terror. Not
fiction HOA fiction Just some quick housekeeping, I noticed that in the email the tag doesn't post at the top like it does on the site. So I'll be adding a note if it's fiction so those of you that don't care for my
rambling My Oh My It's Now July... Technically I could have written my June recap yesterday like I normally would but I was easing back in from vacation. Or not so much easing as trying to get the things that HAD to be done before today done. So June recap is today. How did it go? Well.
rambling Coastal Waters... Brent and I are going away for the weekend. We are headed to the coast for a few days. One of the greatest things about living in Portland is that you can go from the mountains to the coast easily. You can ski on the glacier (what's left
rambling Shh... Sometimes silence is the way to go. Just keeping your mouth shut. Not saying a word is the best course. Silence really is golden. For those of you that know me well you are thinking, what? You never met a silence you didn't shatter! Okay, sure, I'
rambling What Was That? You would think that by now I could no longer be flabbergasted. Like my flabbers are no long gastable, thank you very much. But I forgot that this administration has unlimited amounts of gast to flabber and so here we are again. I last wrote after the US bombed Iran
rambling Warmongers... Well...there was that. It's sort of amazing that just when you think, "Okay, maybe I have a little bit of a handle on things" they break the cup completely. The US bombed Iran. We could see it coming. But then Trump did his "two
fiction Messages... The message came through with just a phone number. No name attached from her contacts. She would have liked to tell herself she didn't know who it was from. That the number wasn't familiar to her. But that would be a lie. She had erased his
rambling Smiles, Everyone, Smiles... I talked about the anniversary of my father's death on Monday, but it was also the anniversary of my mother's birth. She would have been 93. I inherited a lot of mannerism and traits from my mother, but mostly her face. And not just the fact
rambling No Faux King Way... There are moments in life where you see the split very clearly as it happens. The before and the what comes after. Fourteen years ago my sister-in-law called me to tell me the paramedics were with Dad and it didn't look good. Not even five minutes later she
rambling Pride Goeth Before... ...the summer? Okay, maybe that's not how it goes, but it's Pride month and it's almost summer so I'm saying that counts. Yesterday we went to the No Kings Day protest in Beaverton (I'll write about it later, Pride Goeth
rambling Mid June Gloom... Okay, so I wrote at the end of May that I was going to work on getting the scale numbers to budge in June and we are now two weeks in. I also had my follow up appointment for my ankle this week so I figured it was time to
rambling It's Been a Week... It's a form of PTSD in a way. Watching California right now and remembering the BLM protests in Portland in 2020. For those of you that were around me back then you know I pushed back hard on the narrative that the right and Trump and the MSM
rambling So Angry! I had a dream last night where Brent and I had a fight like we haven't had since we were in our 20s. I was telling him about it this morning and he said, "What have I done that you are really mad about that your subconscious
rambling Withhold Judgement... A few days ago I read a story about a family that is facing a horrific tragedy. One of their children had been hit by a car and died. And then the police arrested the parents and charged them with child endangerment and neglect. The mother was with the two
rambling Look... ...I know it's all just petty nonsense and it's designed to take the focus off of other more important things but... Come on. This is amusing as hell. We all knew it would end like this. People were pushing for it to end sooner by calling
rambling The Meaning In Life... I did a little bit of gardening yesterday. The leaves from my tulips and daffodils are about spent so it's time to trim them back. There were weeds to be pulled and flowers to be watered. While I was pulling weeds from the side yard I thought about
rambling I Just.... The President of the United States posted on his social network that Joe Biden died in 2020 and was replaced by a clone. All of that is bonkers. From the fact that the President of the United States owns his own social network to the whole posting (reposting, or ReTruthing
rambling And that's a Wrap on May... I was working on titles and they all ended up sounding really worrisome like May it End... So yeah, that's a wrap on May. And how did it go? Still ahead on my reading goals. I read six books, four fiction and two nonfiction. So not the total
rambling Hate to See It... Jake Tapper's book flopped. He's been hawking it, and everyone on CNN has been hawking it, and still...flopped. Oh hate to see it. What a shame. Pobrecito. Annnnyway.... Okay, so maybe not anyway. Let's back up. For any of you who might not
rambling Survivors, Ready? I used to be a huge fan of Survivor. I can remember first hearing about it in upfronts the year it was going to come out. (Upfronts are previews of new television given to ad agencies to let us see where we might want to spend our client's
rambling Feedback Please... Okay, asking for reader participation for this one. To comment you'll have to click through to the actual page instead of just reading in your email. I've mentioned that I'm kind of stuck. I'm trying to decide what I should write about
