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I always tell people that I can predict earthquakes. I’ll tell you how I do it at the end of…
July 20, 1969. It was a perfect summer Sunday under Montana’s Big Sky. After church and a quick breakfast, we…
My brain has an automatic shut-off switch when I hear the phrase “all you have to do is.” In my…
I was going through some boxes yesterday, looking for God-knows-what. Really now, only God knows what I was looking for…
A few weeks ago, Lenny and I cashed in his frequent flyer mileage, and we ran off to the Big…
I was afraid for her very lifeline. She didn’t have the experience to know that it wasn’t evolved to leave…
Last weekend, Lenny organized the garage, cleaned out the gutters, trimmed the wisteria, and hauled a cedar chest upstairs. We…
Since September, when the shadow of depression crossed over the world, when banks and companies, large and small, began to…
It was the Advent of Christmas 1996. Our son John, age 13, had a well prepared list of gift “suggestions”…
The old Mervyn’s building near Alderwood Mall has been transformed into something called “H Mart.” Lenny and I were curious,…
Last week we encountered Part One of a stimulus package. It’s not sufficient to solve all our woes, but it…
Normally I have a pretty good memory, and I constantly preach to other women that they have to trust themselves….
I come from a patchwork neighborhood, in a patchwork town. Oh, sure, Butte, Montana had a reputation, verified by history,…
Lenny and I have been asking each other if Christmas happened yet. We both worked long hours throughout December, and…
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One of my great delights during December is a visit to Snowflake Lane in downtown Bellevue. At seven o’clock, toy soldiers march from Lincoln Square to take their posts atop toy drums that line the streets, drumming all the while.
The big table tells the story. I needed to clear it off to set it for dinner, so I took inventory of the stuff of life that lay scattered across the top.
In 1929, my parents were 13 years old. I’m sure they didn’t have any idea what caused the sudden downturn in the economy at the end of that year.
