Put your best foot forward

Women love shoes. That’s a gender stereotype I’m in no position to argue with. Granted, I only own 6 pairs, and they came from Overstock and Zappos not Madison Avenue, but I lust after them in every store I browse. When I was a college sophomore, I got my first male compliment (unrelated to my [...]

West defends himself on the Today Show

Before I moved to Spokane 21 years ago, I went to the library and did a search in the old bound volumes of the Guide to Periodical Literature. I found only two topics listed, both of which were written up in Time Magazine: Kevin Coe, the South Hill serial rapist whose mother tried to have [...]

On the road again

Bright and early tomorrow morning I’m off to McMinnville, OR for Julia’s college graduation. I’m so proud of her; she’s grown into a thoughtful, intelligent, sensitive, beautiful, loving young woman, everything I ever hoped she’d be and more. When I was the age she is now, she was laying swaddled in my arms, my first [...]

Friday dog-blogging

Most of you know that I’m a hopeless Seattle Mariners’ fan, so it should be no surprise that I have a dog named after one. When I found my Edgar in a cage at the Spokane Humane Society, I wasn’t looking for a puppy. Thor had been dead just 3 weeks and I was missing [...]

Washington Scholars’ Day

Olympia was beautiful. I’d forgotten how much greener it is on the other side of the Cascades, with 12 foot tall rhododendrons, wild flowers blooming everywhere and not a Ponderosa Pine in sight. Since the legislature was not in session and the state supreme court was on the road, traffic was minimal on the capitol [...]

Off to Olympia

In a couple of hours I’m off to Olympia for Meredith’s Washington Scholar banquet at the capitol. Be back on Thursday!

Profiting from the Green River Killer ….

Superior Court Judge Brian Gain ruled this week that Judith Mawson, ex-wife of convicted Green River Killer Gary Ridgeway, is free to write and sell the story of her life with the notorious murder because the state’s “Son of Sam” law does not prohibit family members from profiting from by the crimes. Family members, said [...]

Integrating myself

In her post yesterday, Tish asked whether I had yet decided what to do about splitting up my journaling. That would be an easier question to answer if her own honesty hadn’t made me think so deeply about my motives. Tish has a gift for doing that. First a little history. When I started my [...]

Bush vs. Jesus

This is the must-watch video of the month: Bush vs. Jesus, the campaign commercial. A sample:

Friday dog-blogging

From 1998, my son with Thor, my best friend for 15 years. Tony is now 15, and Thor has been gone nearly 4 years.

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