September 06, 2005
A couple of weeks ago my son appeared at the airport from Tokyo, and needed to use my vehicle for the day. He took it to downtown Seattle and there got pulled over by a police officer, who issued him...
August 05, 2005
I was a good sister/cousin/kinfolk of kinfolk today. But I was a bad daughter-- or was I? I dutifully collected folks at the airport coming from Houston. I waited around at the airport while we recovered more kinfolk from Memphis,...
November 03, 2004
I wonder how many suicides occur on election night. According to the exit polls, the number one issue on voters' minds, even above terrorism or the economy or the war, was moral values. Well hells bells, let's be sure that...
October 20, 2004
To paraphrase Barbara Mandrell: "I was knitting when knitting wasn't cool." The arrival of my holiday issue of Vogue Knitting made it very obvious how "cool" knitting is today. I was appalled. The magazine is hardly anything but advertisements and...
October 13, 2004
Dear Mr. President: I am furious with you. I have watched all three presidential debates. I have tried to keep an open mind. I watched you scowl through the first one, charge (with no respect for anyone else) through the...
