If you've lived around the Puget Sound for any length of time, you know about The Gray. It has other names, of course. The Gloomy Season...

HERE'S a place in Silverdale at the top of a hill, overlooking the valley and Dyes Inlet, called the Oak Table Cafe. It serves only brea...

OME of you might know that I save correspondence -- the snailmail letters and postcards that I receive from family and friends. (Not ALL of ...

How's this past week been for the Laundry Faerie, you ask? Public domain Cyclone image by Mark Houtzager Well, to sum up: it's been ...

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. --Mark Twain, who mistakenly attributed this quote to Benjamin Disraeli La...

[I originally posted this on social media, but after a set period of time I deliberately delete posts there. This one I thought was importan...

I posted this on social media a while back, but I keep thinking about it. There's a long history in children's literature of war, di...

I was having a chat with my sister Julie earlier this evening and she made a comment that stuck in my head. I mentioned that I'd heard s...

20 years ago this week, Captain Midnight and I got invited to a goofy party at Rob and Marie Cummings' house in Bellevue. Rob was turnin...

OME minor odd things I've noticed regarding pandemic conditions, which may or may not be forgotten by history unless someone (say, me)...

When I was still in grade school, we had a fairly popular Mexican restaurant in town called El Papagallo, and one night it burned to the gro...

A handful of things you think about if you're me (which I am) and you're up late at night/early in the morning to get some much-need...

ONJOUR, mes amis! I've been hesitating to check in and say things like "we're all well here," because I realize how quic...

month has gone by fairly rapidly, with many changes, and I haven't taken the time to write about many of them. And it occurs to me tha...

Miss V and I had to run a few errands today before we (mostly) retreat to the house for the next several weeks. As the coronavirus pandemic ...

Oh man, the alliteration goblins are dancing a happy little jig over that post title! Ehem. Pressing on. So as you've probably hear...

(No, this is not about the app. You young whippersnappers get off my lawn.) If you haven't already seen the 1985 film Return to Oz , g...